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"All models are wrong, but some are useful"

A lot of so-called experts don't quite grasp the former and don't care about the latter. They cannot be relied upon for actual decision making, since the low level details are what's hard!



Then what do you rely on for decision making? Gut instinct? That’s a model too, albeit unformalized.




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