My experiences have shown me that while models themselves are not terrifying. When people confuse the model for reality and then operate as if the model cannot

My experiences have shown me that while models themselves are not terrifying. When people confuse the model for reality and then operate as if the model cannot ever possibly be wrong, especially with complex systems, that is when really bad things happen. The map is not the territory was probably one of the most important things I learned in my graduate studies days. Drove me absolutely nuts seeing people programming models into their computers, running them, and then being like "look my prediction was right, thus science!" I was like, well duh, you told the computer to do X and it did X. That's not a surprise.