Reality Is Very Weird and You Need to Be Prepared for That
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Reality Is Very Weird and You Need to Be Prepared for That
We often spend lots of time coming up with very complicated narratives to explain what we see around us. From the behavior of people on the street to physical phenomena, we get caught up in assuming vast icebergs of meaning beyond the tips that we observe.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
But overall, both research efforts themselves (*cough* behavioral economics *cough*) and “debunking” efforts can be naive in this clueless way, causing infinite regress of levels of bunking/debunking that goes nowhere. Because reality is messier than you think and people are more malicious than you think.
But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are able to explain. They know down to many decimal places where those maps are useful guides to reality, and where they aren’t. And when they hit uncharted territory, like quantum mechanics, they explore it carefully i
... See moreRhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
The world contained in this data does not operate according to the neat Newtonian rules of cause and effect but spirals into the baffling complexity of chaos theory, wherein everything is connected to everything else and even small changes have widespread repercussions. Or rather, this is the world that had always been there, lurking beyond our lim
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