American scientist and complexity researcher whose The Half-Life of Facts applies quantitative methods to the decay of knowledge — measuring the rate at which facts in various fields are overturned.
Demonstrated quantitatively that facts in different domains have measurable and predictable obsolescence rates — medical knowledge turns over faster than mathematical knowledge — making epistemic humility empirically grounded.
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