There's a distinction that's probably only obvious to people with some grad-level math: Corner cases are not the same as rare cases. Neither implies the other. "Corners" are a measure-0 subset of a space where open-nbhd/non-singleton methods don't apply Ie "special treatment"
You assume abstractability is entirely a function of the intelligence of the agent acting on the context. I disagree with that premise. It's fundamentally a propert of the domain. Tax law is less abstractable than classical Newtonian mechanics.
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no way. you've got a really powerful implicit notion of "good abstraction produces good results" here and I think that's wrong. tax law is extremely easily abstractable but you make a value judgment that elegant abstractions of it are bad laws. e.g. flat tax.
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our ability to evaluate "goodness" of an abstraction is the hard part. physics is a case where the abstraction is complicated but the evaluation is simple (prediction vs. experimental observation).
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