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Dune is “made up” just as much as economists making predictions about future world populations are made up. They are both toy models that can be useful to infor
by j7ake 5y ago
Dune is “made up” just as much as economists making predictions about future world populations are made up. They are both toy models that can be useful to inform real life.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> They are both toy models Dune is not a model, toy or otherwise, it is a narrative with no independent variables. The illusion that there is a model involved is art, just as the illusion of (say) spaceships in the film version.
- watwut 5y agoThey are not comparable at all. And economic models are taken with massive e caution too. There is difference between fiction and reality. Dune is fiction.