There is a fuzzy and yet shared notion of "best" in many of these circumstances (it's easier to see in the s/w dev or engineer examples). It's certainly not some linear combination of "minimize cost, minimize probability of bridge collapse, maximize car capacity..." but...
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @SilverVVulpes and
... if you sat in the conference room and listened to two civil engineers argue over each of these factors, they clearly are goal-oriented. But it's often not productive to try to come up with a formal system to describe their goal!
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Replying to @AlexGodofsky @SilverVVulpes and
You can take one version of this to be a strong-form claim that a Grand Unified System *doesn't exist at all*. Another version would be a weaker-form claim that finding the Grand Unified System is probably a waste of effort relative to doing something else.
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Replying to @olivertraldi @SilverVVulpes and
Clearly in some fields this has been a very worthwhile endeavor. But there's a second benefit we get from this view, besides "can play xbox instead of philosophy dorking": viz. that when someone *points out* a contradiction, we don't have to conclude "oh shoot we are wrong".
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Replying to @olivertraldi @SilverVVulpes and
"Oh shoot" is the optional part. A very pithy summary of "stage 5" is "all models are wrong; some are useful".
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Replying to @olivertraldi @SilverVVulpes and
Sure. Nothing in this denies "truth and reality". It's about systems, which attempt to describe "truth and reality" both parsimoniously and accurately, goals which can, at the margin, be opposed.
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I think your perception that lots of people are angry at you is local to you make of that what you will
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