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One of my weird growing beliefs is that despite its squishy, messy appearance, politics has as much native precision as physics. We used to think biology was squishy messy stuff until we discovered DNA and realized it was just more complex and illegible computation/math.
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Just because you don't know how to balance an energy equation doesn't mean energy conservation isn't in effect. Just because you don't grok genomics doesn't mean DNA computation is an imprecise process. Just we don't grok psychohistory doesn't mean hidden laws aren't in effect.
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I like Strauss and Howe model too 😀 But it’s not good enough for what I’m thinking about. That’s just vague Elliot cycle level apophenia. Fun but not law level.
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The only true science is physics. Biology is physics, chemistry is physics etc. social systems are not physics. They have reflexive properties. They may have underlying behavioral laws but that doesn’t make it physics.