if you take his general ‘cognitive strategy’ and just power it with worse thinking, you get really bad results.
I call this “retired physicist syndrome”, after the classic SMBC cartoon: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
Climate models aren’t reductionist enough! We can recreate the first language using statistics! Awoooo! Oncology is doing it wrong!
Climate models aren’t reductionist enough!
We can recreate the first language using statistics!
Awoooo! Oncology is doing it wrong!
It can be bad to be Open but not also smart. (You could also call this “emeritus professor syndrome” in many cases.)
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I call this “retired physicist syndrome”, after the classic SMBC cartoon: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
It can be bad to be Open but not also smart. (You could also call this “emeritus professor syndrome” in many cases.)