Re:Science without Validation in a World without Meaning
by pdonis on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:55AM
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> the hypothesis-test-apply loop of knowledge acquisition
Public policy, affecting the lives of everybody, is not the same as engineering with inanimate objects.
> It's like any intervention: if the patient will almost certainly die if you do nothing
A country of 300 million people, or a planet of 8 billion people, is not one "patient" to which one thing will or will not happen. Treating public policy as though it were just a matter of deciding "what is best for the patient" is foolish. There is no one "best" thing for everybody.
Public policy, affecting the lives of everybody, is not the same as engineering with inanimate objects.
> It's like any intervention: if the patient will almost certainly die if you do nothing
A country of 300 million people, or a planet of 8 billion people, is not one "patient" to which one thing will or will not happen. Treating public policy as though it were just a matter of deciding "what is best for the patient" is foolish. There is no one "best" thing for everybody.