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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
Principlev1PR-533

Design tests that can genuinely fail by specifying…

Design tests that can genuinely fail by specifying in advance what observations would falsify the schema, not merely what would confirm it.

Why This Is a Principle

Follows from Illusion of Explanatory Depth (felt understanding vs. articulation) and Automatic Fusion of Observation and Interpretation (observation fused with interpretation). Prescribes specifying falsification criteria as a way to prevent post-hoc rationalization. This is Popperian falsification operationalized.