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“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.
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 @JohnDCook:pic.twitter.com/Nw10eNG8q3
Hah: "bring out your differential equations". Reminds me of this bit from Rota:pic.twitter.com/1n3sFH3TGi
"making tacit knowledge explicit" is a wonderful sales pitch for a book. Well, wonderful for at least one buyer (me).
What texts do this best in your opinion? Other than yours of course
I know of nothing that treats the topic broadly. Which is really, really weird. I think it is enormously and obviously important, yet hardly anyone talks about it, and when they do it’s briefly and only in narrow domains. (Would love to hear suggestions if anyone has them!)
Of course there's Polanyi's famous early work. I'm also a fan of this paper of Harry Collins, which I gradually inflict on all my friends: https://www.gwern.net/docs/philo/2001-collins.pdf …
A classic!
BTW, have you seen the Journal of Visualized Experiments ( http://www.jove.com )? Explicitly founded in 2006 or 2007 to make (some) tacit knowledge explicit.
Whoa!! That’s *really* interesting—thank you!
Whoa? This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cry out, "By Jove!"
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