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If your mental model for something is so malleable that it can explain cancer and police corruption the same way, maybe it's not actually providing any insight
by albertsun 11y ago
If your mental model for something is so malleable that it can explain cancer and police corruption the same way, maybe it's not actually providing any insight and all you've done is distort reality to fit it. Just saying... Game theory is so easy to invoke
- jmcmichael 11y agoOn the other hand, many times deep principles can be discovered and validated when they reveal unusual correlations between previously unknown-to-be-related systems.
- patcon 11y agoOr maybe it suggests underlying order? https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_for_intelligence?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/alex_wissner_gross_a_new_equation_...