Why is it funny that people understand things in terms of their experience? The original comment about "lossy compression" essentially stated that humans don't

Why is it funny that people understand things in terms of their experience? The original comment about "lossy compression" essentially stated that humans don't have perfect thinking/memory/processing of probabilities. Do you disagree? Does it matter whether or not the wording of this idea uses computer science terms? Sure, technical people might try to apply methods from technical disciplines to social ones. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. As a rule, however, I don't think anyone assumes mathematics will completely replace social studies. We might use statistics to better understand social studies, but the social context is still distinctive from pure math, and always will be. Some of the best hackers are the ones who DO borrow ideas from other disciplines. And all other disciplines can often benefit from applying increasingly complex statistical methods, aided by computer and data scientists.