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It is a "law" in the same sense as the MacDonald's Rule (countries that host MacDonald's franchises don't go to war.) It works until it doesn't.
by _jal 6y ago
It is a "law" in the same sense as the MacDonald's Rule (countries that host MacDonald's franchises don't go to war.)
It works until it doesn't.
- ben_w 6y agoTrue, and I can say the same about Hooke’s law, Newton’s law of gravity, and so on. Extrapolation outside your dataset is only a problem if you take it too far, and how far is “too far” depends on how well you modelled reality with your dataset in the first place.