Yup, academics revise and retract things. So, where are Richard Feynman’s errata? Show me.
The answer, I think, is that there isn’t a single answer to that question. Presumably there are some individual mistakes which he corrected (though I don’t know of, e.g., any papers that he retracted) -- the analogues of the individual posts I listed a few of above. But I don’t know of any case where he said “whoops, I was completely wrong about something fundamental”, and if you open any of his books I don’t think you’ll find any prominent list of mistakes or anything like that.
As you say, science is noted for having very good practices around admitting and fixing mistakes. Feynman is noted for having been a very good scientist. So show me how he meets your challenge better than Less Wrong does.
No, you haven’t “already told me” concrete examples. You’ve gestured towards a bunch of things you claim have been refuted, but given no details, no links, nothing. You haven’t said what was wrong, or what would have been right instead, or who found the alleged mistakes, or how the LW community reacted, or anything.
Unless I missed it, of course. That’s always possible. Got a link?
Good grief… academics revise and retract things all the times. The very word “errata” comes from.the world of academic publishing!
I’ve already told you.
Yup, academics revise and retract things. So, where are Richard Feynman’s errata? Show me.
The answer, I think, is that there isn’t a single answer to that question. Presumably there are some individual mistakes which he corrected (though I don’t know of, e.g., any papers that he retracted) -- the analogues of the individual posts I listed a few of above. But I don’t know of any case where he said “whoops, I was completely wrong about something fundamental”, and if you open any of his books I don’t think you’ll find any prominent list of mistakes or anything like that.
As you say, science is noted for having very good practices around admitting and fixing mistakes. Feynman is noted for having been a very good scientist. So show me how he meets your challenge better than Less Wrong does.
No, you haven’t “already told me” concrete examples. You’ve gestured towards a bunch of things you claim have been refuted, but given no details, no links, nothing. You haven’t said what was wrong, or what would have been right instead, or who found the alleged mistakes, or how the LW community reacted, or anything.
Unless I missed it, of course. That’s always possible. Got a link?
Einstein admitted to a “greatest mistake”.
So did Eliezer Yudkowsky. What’s your point?