“All models are wrong, but some are useful” is right, but sometimes worse than useless.pic.twitter.com/CGpd58Ak5U
In the last sentence, you can substitute "physics" for "meta-rationality" and it's still true. It's rarely very explicitly taught as a skill. But the difference between a student and an experienced physicist on this is enormous.
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Yes—the goal of the eggplant book is to start to explain these things which aren’t ever explicitly taught, and learned only through osmosis, trial-and-error, or at best apprenticeship. Related, from
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Hah: "bring out your differential equations". Reminds me of this bit from Rota:pic.twitter.com/1n3sFH3TGi
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Or engineering. Or optics. I think the common thread along all the possible answers is a set of principles to decide between models, so his wording works better than physics here.
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Yes, it’s every field in which technical rationality is used, I think. I’m trying to include in the book examples from as many different fields as possible.
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You can actually replace any rigorous discipline there.
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Can confirm.
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