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

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

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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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.  

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