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If you do end up giving this some more thought, I'd be interested in hearing about meaningful differences of opinion on cultural or policy issues. I've never h
by TOMDM 5y ago
If you do end up giving this some more thought, I'd be interested in hearing about meaningful differences of opinion on cultural or policy issues.
I've never heard of this spectrum before.
- Ericson2314 5y agoI left another long comment going through Scott's list. I looked around and found https://www.marxist.com/marx-darwin-and-gould-the-revolution-of-evolution-pt-1.htm https://www.marxist.com/marx-darwin-and-gould-the-revolution... which has some neat quotes but is written at times in a bit a rigid way that I think would be a cringy rhetorical misfire for this audience. But as I am currently taking some economics classes, the biology--economics relationships are top of mind. Dawkin's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene-centered_view_of_evolutio... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfoundations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfoundations along with neoclassical economics writ large have some pretty clear parallels.
- Ericson2314 5y agoI might add, in the way that a programmer might, that living unformalized theories are very flexible, and trying to "disprove" based on fact will never end the dispute. It's better to think in terms of "what model responds with fewer epicycle" as new evidence arises, or even broader and more simply "which abstractions are more useful". So it's more like the quest for better programming languages and libraries, than "right" and "wrong". I see no other way to resolve these sorts of disputes productively.