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		colordrops on Feb 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you warm yourself with your mind? Except these claims are not empirically unfalsifiable.

awb on Feb 22, 2022 [–]

Sure, but I think there's some leeway there.

If I claim that if you burn $1M it'll rain for a year, it's falsifiable, but we don't really need to test it. The burden would be on me to demonstrate scientifically how this hypothesis has any merit before it's reasonable to test it.

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