Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 12:34:13 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1008326950304342017
Imprecision, suggestion, and demand for substitution create the impression of consensus where there is none. If you can’t state something operationally so that it is testable, then you either don’t know what you’re talking about or are engaged in abrahamic sophisms.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-17 08:34:00 UTC
OPERATIONAL LANGUAGE EXPRESSING SCIENCE: THE LEAST FALSE METHOD OF REACHING ROME
—“Science is both the method of inquiry and the body of knowledge gained by that method’s application. A priori knowledge applies only to the abstract, once it interacts with the real world the test of any tool or paradigm is how effective it is in predicting and changing it. As there’s only one real world, any framework or method of inquiry that is effective in interfacing with it will approach the same results. All roads lead to Rome, as it were.”—Jason Johnson
>Curt Doolittle ^ This is the most important argument really. Although I would refine it to say ‘there is only one most parsimonious (shortest) road to Rome.’
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-12 13:09:00 UTC
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept. Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of. (a subtle bit of genius)
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational. by Dan Fodor I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties). This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept. Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of. (a subtle bit of genius)
BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN
Sometimes operational before descriptive, and sometimes descriptive before operational.
by Dan Fodor
I sometimes get ‘operational’ before I get ‘descriptive’ : I can spend hours running “simulations” of the math problem I’m trying to solve in my head (simple ex: visualize a cube to deduce its properties).
This gets problematic if I forget to eat or forego attention to various mundane details around me. Anyway, the point is, when getting descriptive (or when passing from operational to descriptive), I need the lenience to speak vaguely (even if only to myself) before I can speak clearly.I suspect this is true for any new concept.
Something must first be thought of before it can be spoken of.
(a subtle bit of genius)
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-10 10:34:00 UTC
Keynes’ first work was in probability. He was a successful investor. He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions). He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits. All economies head toward disequilibrium. Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.
Keynes’ first work was in probability. He was a successful investor. He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions). He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits. All economies head toward disequilibrium. Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.
PROBABILITIES AND PSUEDOSCIENCE
Keynes’ first work was in probability.
He was a successful investor.
He used probabilities where the law used operations (Legal transactions).
He institutionalized the ludic fallacy: that games with limits mirrors human actions that consistently expand limits.
All economies head toward disequilibrium.
Growth is in fact an instance of disequilibrium.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-08 07:59:00 UTC
Statistical correlations like theories must be stated (a) in a series of subjectively testable operations, and (b) using the most parsimonious sequence, (c) with the most rational incentives.
Most of the time, a statistic is being used to lie or counter a lie. Like truth and falsehood there is no reason to state the truth other than to counter a falsehood. Nor any reason to state a falsehood other than to counter a truth.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-04 13:05:00 UTC