David Deutsch on Hard-to-Vary Scientific Explanations

TED · Talk · YouTube title: David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation

Why it's here

HN points to it as a short, tight introduction to Deutsch's idea of hard-to-vary explanations.

What it covers

Physicist David Deutsch's TED talk on why science took off, arguing that good explanations are those that are hard to vary. It contrasts scientific explanation with myth.