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by BobaFloutist 376 days ago
It kind of introduces a fun thought experiment, of a super high-level, complex equivalent of the Monty Hall Problem (which is so counterintuitive that even very intelligent and mathematically literate people will outright refuse to accept the established truth). How would we ever establish truth on something so monstrously complicated that only ~10-100 people in the world could possibly understand and at the same time so divisive that there cannot be a strong consensus?