In simple logic you can always prove/disprove well formed propositions
In more complex logic and math, you can’t always
In physics you can disprove but not prove
In social science you can vaguely pile up proof ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ where ‘reasonable’ is the local religion
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It appears that the bet of our age is that social science can be broken down into simple logical propositions which imho is the grandest of all fallacies.
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Yeah people too quickly the enlightenment era distinction between natural and moral philosophy.
As an aspiring psychohistorian would be curious to your thoughts on Zuckerberg ambitions to universality
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He's making a basic legibility fallacy judgement error. He's too eager to define what can be modeled by equations (and some stuff can) as "universal.
I don't know when the thread is from, but he's already seen the unintended consequences of that with the Russian manipulation.
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