[FRIAM] All models are wrong - modeling Covid-19

[Frank Wimberly]

Good Freud quote, Glen.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:57 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok.  Well said.  I am sending Cranky Nick to the medicine cabinet right
> now.  Give a few hours for the medication  to take.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
> Clark University
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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>
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> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ?
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2020 12:53 PM
> To: FriAM <friam at redfish.com>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All models are wrong - modeling Covid-19
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> Well, my guess is that Feynman would admit that everything has context,
> including both an original utterance and subsequent repetitions of all or
> part of that utterance. [†] And it's also important to note that ALL pithy
> aphorisms are abominations because they all deny the context. We see this
> most clearly in "pseudo-profound bullshit": http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
>
> And, as Marcus points out with "complexity club", we see it right here in
> this forum. So, when we read something like that, it's more important to
> try to understand, e.g., what _Steve_ meant in his use of the aphorism,
> rather than asserting that he's a member of a cult ... which he probably
> is, but since I'm a member of the Church of Set, the Satanic Temple, a
> Discordian Episkopos, and a member/owner of a brewing cooperative, his cult
> membership is not the point.
>
> [†] One of the lessons of postmodernism is that one can read a text
> without reading *through* the text. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>
> On 4/16/20 11:35 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I think the repetition of the Feynman Quote, which is just misguided,
> and which I hear all the time, and which I cannot believe Feynman would not
> have repudiated if he were set down with a good philosopher, is Cultish.
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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