[thinkr42]

It is remarkable how frequently “unreasonable effectiveness” is thrown around.

[nerdponx]

It's a deliberate riff on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences", in the same vein of declaring something "considered harmful."

[thinkr42]

That is something I hadn’t thought of before

[tomrod]

I must be missing something -- I have never considered the "unreasonable effectiveness" and "considered harmful" to be equivalent?

[swagasaurus-rex]

Perhaps it's the educated equivalent of "You'll be amazed at this one amazing trick!"

[backpropaganda]

We embrace that as well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5997