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Re:This is not the future by shadowgovt on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:17AM (#46290419)
Models are emphatically not nature.

They are at best an attempt to use our tools of reason and observation to predict nature, and you can point to thousands of examples, from market crashes to election outcomes, to observe how they can be flawed and fail to predict.

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Re:This is not the future by Terretta on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:43PM (#46291599)
> the future is made up of 8B+ independent actors and they're going to react to incentives

= “nature”, if you're an evolutionist

as for models, all models are wrong etc.

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