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New career: for a fee I will write a pop-sci article "Here's why we don't understand X", where X is any generic well-understood phenomenon that you want to clickbait people about. Will reduce everything to the cosmological constant problem if necessary.
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That would actually be a really fun column to write. Like an advice column, except people write in with questions like: "Dear Brian, Can you tell me why we don't understand the internal combustion engine? -Running on fumes"
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The thing is that lay expectations of "explanations" is some sort of ontologically absolute, finite and closed causality/agency account of *everything* about X. They want religious magic explanations not a sort of moving target partial paradigm with predictive power thing
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