This is only a slight exaggeration and speed-up of the real world. Kuhnian paradigm shifts every week instead of every century, and with median shift being 9 on the Richter scale rather than 6.
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I’d argue the reverse. We restrict the range of civilizational activity to make more predictable phenomena more normal. Both math and science would be less useful in the wild. Civilization creates math/science unreasonable effectiveness bubbles.
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Nancy Cartwright has argued that there are no fundamental laws as such. Only phenomenological/ constitutive
“All laws are contingent” is probably my minimalist Hume++ epistemology.
But inventions can be absolute.
Therefore engineers are higher status than mathematicians or scientists.
QED
This is Rao’s law and theorem
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