maybe we figured out physics too early
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trouble with physics is it makes it real hard to be not a physicalist in other areas you can do it but its not easy
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why is that trouble well we had some decent models of human behavior and life generally maybe that were not compatible with physicalism being wrong is fine if your model works approximately well anyway but once you realize its conceptually wrong you cant really sell it as well
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so we have a pretty well functioning natural sciences, mostly, kind of meanwhile we've made no progress in most psychological and social sciences, in fact we've regressed in most of these cases i bet folk psychology/sociology was actually superior
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this because while our modern models are not wrong in the sense of being superphysical they don't strike me as an obvious improvement over the old baseline in prediction and understanding meanwhile, folk models are practical, predict pretty well, and are easy to learn
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extremely robust system in practice! both refer to real patterns and only overliteralists looking for edge cases would be tripped up :)
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At least these models successfully predict the past!
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