The Copernican Revolution (discovery earth was not at the center of the solar system) initially had worse empirical calculations because they didn't know planets traveled in ellipses.

The moments after the revolution might be worse, but in the long term, we got better.

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chrisjj an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The Copernican Revolution

Let's not forget this characterisation appeared only centuries later, and without concensus.

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Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We can pick the best and worst examples all day, but it’s not very productive IMO.

	▲	naasking 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It could be if it actually lets us calibrate our credence of your original claim that most revolutions have resulted in a lot of death for little benefit. If the worst examples are much worse than the best examples, or vice versa, then we can plausibly conclude whether you are at least directionally correct.