Was Tesa right about Models & Reality?

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."

Wow that's so true, and well-put.

In the field of academic psychology, there is now the "reproducibility crisis" where they're finding 60% or more of papers may not have reproducible results. There is not nearly enough verification going on, because there's much more funding for researching new ideas, rather than repeating existing ones.

[–]GazingIntoTheAbyss[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Here is a rule for the World, "Nobody checks anything"

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here's another rule: "Trust, but verify."

The diligent check things, but they're few and far between.

[–]GazingIntoTheAbyss[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's true, I'm starting to think the NPC meme is more true by the day

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not that there's NPCs, it's just that most animals and people aren't that smart. There's a wide variety of intelligence