{"id":956,"date":"2013-04-30T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=956"},"modified":"2013-05-02T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:22:43","slug":"skeptical-hypotheses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/skeptical-hypotheses\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeptical Hypotheses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I think Popper said something about the power of scientific reasoning: that our hypotheses can die instead of us.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Neat trick, isn't it?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Except according to the third horn of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\">simulation argument<\/a>, <em>we are<\/em> someone's hypothesis!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I think Popper said something about the power of scientific reasoning: that our hypotheses can die instead of us.&quot; &quot;Neat trick, isn't it?&quot; &quot;Except according to the third horn of the simulation argument, we are someone's hypothesis!&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}