I like the analogy! I hadn’t explicitly made the connection, but strongly agree (both that this is an important general phenomena, and that it specifically applies here). Though I’m pretty unsure how much I/other MI researchers are in 1 vs 3 when we try to reason about systems!
To be clear, I definitely do not want to suggest that people don’t try to rigorously reverse engineer systems a bunch, and be super details oriented. Linked to your comment in the post.
I like the analogy! I hadn’t explicitly made the connection, but strongly agree (both that this is an important general phenomena, and that it specifically applies here). Though I’m pretty unsure how much I/other MI researchers are in 1 vs 3 when we try to reason about systems!
To be clear, I definitely do not want to suggest that people don’t try to rigorously reverse engineer systems a bunch, and be super details oriented. Linked to your comment in the post.