Yohan John 🤖🧠on Nostr: In 2024, resolve to be suspicious of any overarching theory based on the optimization ...
In 2024, resolve to be suspicious of any overarching theory based on the optimization of an underconstrained scalar quantity.
The inevitable free parameters in the quantity's definition allow one to work backwards from *any* observation to show that it is "optimal". :P
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