Comment by sgreenbaum@fbelimited.com (sgreenbaum-fbelimited-com) on A Brief History of LessWrong · 2024-06-09T14:54:09.120Z · LW · GW

Is the origin of the name LessWrong related to Karl Popper’s ideas? Popper showed that you can’t prove a scientific theory, you can only disprove it. So current Scientific “truth” is the Less Wrong explanation that today best fits the observable facts, not necessarily the Right explanation.