> The modern world cries out for definition going off on a tangent here, but "definition" (like "theory") is a mistake things are what they are, and trying to boil them down to essences kills the reality (at best) and generates ignorance-but-with-a-pithy-label (at worst)https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1410252037950947329 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Sure your theory of the world should be a simple as possible but no simpler. Even so, we might ask what is the simplest workable theory.
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yep I regularly criticize "theory", which is intended to criticize the dominant paradigm of things labelled theory, not actually the best case version of it I suppose my ranting is that of a disappointed lover - Good Theory is so useful that bad theory hurts even more
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