The whole point of the outside view is that “pulling a superficial similarity out of your arse” often works better than delving into complicated object-level arguments. At least a superficial similarity is more entangled with reality, more objective, than that 80% number I made up in the shower. If you want to delude yourself, it’s easier to do with long chains of reasoning than with surface similarities.
The whole point of the outside view is that “pulling a superficial similarity out of your arse” often works better than delving into complicated object-level arguments. At least a superficial similarity is more entangled with reality, more objective, than that 80% number I made up in the shower. If you want to delude yourself, it’s easier to do with long chains of reasoning than with surface similarities.