IFFS Play

In this talk Olle Häggström will sketch and contrast two different epistemic attitudes that roughly correspond to Bayesianism and Popperian falsificationism. He will argue that they both have virtues that render them important roles in scientific thinking, but that only one of them is suitable situations that require urgent decision-making. Examples will be taken from the early work on the atomic bomb and from contemporary work on artificial intelligence, covid-19 and existential risk.