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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Exactly. It’s like pre-Newtonian physics. Our limited understanding doesn’t mean there’s no there there. Meme/nudge/Overton window/Dunbar’s number all have explanatory power.
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Maybe the Great Filter is too many civilizations get atomic physics before they get social physics.
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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.