So much relevant expertise in political science. This would be so much better as a team project that included them.https://twitter.com/GovernorTomWolf/status/962060492175900674 …
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By contrast, there are parts of mathematic & physics (& a few other fields, though spottier) where it's possible to make tight arguments thousands of pages long, integrating the results of tens of thousands of people. I know of nothing remotely like that in politics.
The complexity of the argument behind something like the Poincare conjecture (which I do _not_ understand in detail, though I understand pieces of the background) is really astounding, and relies on very, very tight conditions for accepting results.
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Conversely (and this is a point that Sperber makes in his fantastic book Explaining Culture) to properly understand a mathematical proof is to _know_ that it is right, which is profoundly different from more social forms of knowledge. But I’ve hijacked Corrine’s feed for too long
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Oops, sorry Corrine! Thanks for the pointers (& conversation), Henry, much appreciated.
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