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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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Jun 18, 2017
Per
@juliagalef
: when griping about bad metrics in fuzzy fields, too easy to go 180° & argue for anything. How can we *partially* use quant?
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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Jun 18, 2017
Wrote on this a bit: http://blog.andymatuschak.org/post/159340765257/exalting-data-missing-meaning…; & from
@millsbaker
: https://medium.com/quora-design/story-thought-and-system-thought-188dce7a87e6…. Still ?: how much to weight what when—how to sum.
blog.andymatuschak.org
Exalting data, missing meaning
Science developed out of philosophy. Before we had Copernicus’s planetary tables or Newton’s equations of motion, we had Aristotle’s rhetoric. That medieval natural philosophy was wrong, but it...
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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@juliagalef
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@millsbaker
The correct combination is necessarily unknowable—unknown unknowns & all—but we can do better than whim. Kindling: https://meaningness.com/metablog/bongard-meta-rationality…
5:11 PM · Jun 18, 2017·Twitter for Mac
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