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alsiola | 2 years ago

Will watch the TED talk, thanks for sharing. I come at this from a medical/epidemiological background prior to building software, and no doubt this shapes my view on the language we use around experimentation, so it is interesting to hear different reasoning.

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thingification|2 years ago

Good to see an open mind! I think most critical rationalists would say that epidemiology is a den of weakly explanatory theories.

Even though I agree, I'm not sure that's 100% epidemiology's fault by any means: it's just a very difficult subject, at least without measurement technology, computational power, and probably (machine or human) learning and theory-building that even now we don't have. But, there must be opportunities here for people making better theories.