Even better:
> _“You can put a #number on anything if you try hard enough (number quality not guaranteed, see store for details).
Once you put a number on something, you improve your understanding and decision making (even if the number isn’t of prime quality). At the core of this belief is the idea that the world we live in is made of #math, however literally you decide to take that statement. Whenever a field of #science achieves any useful knowledge of that world, it is usually in form of precise mathematical equations or careful #statistics. Every science is an exact science, or trying to be.”_
@tripu "The particular brand of stupidity on display also points to another signal vanity of our time: the conviction that if you measure things enough, you can control them." -JH Kunstler http://bit.ly/1B1VhBx
I completely agree. Measuring isn't the same as shaping or controlling. I don't have the time to read that post, so I'm not sure what's the connection to my quote.
@tripu "The causal relationships between factors in nature are just too entangled for man to unravel through research & analysis. Perhaps science succeeds in advancing one slow step at a time...because it does so while groping in total darkness along a road without end, it is unable to know the real truth of things. This is why scientists are pleased with partial explications and see nothing wrong with pointing a finger and proclaiming this to be the cause and that the effect." -Masanobu Fukuoka
Most rationalists I respect (and I) disagree.
> _“I generally support applying made-up models to pretty much any problem possible, just to notice where our intuitions are going wrong and to get a second opinion from a process that has no common sense but […] also lacks systematic bias (or else has unpredictable, different systematic bias).”_
@tripu Fukuoka: "The causal relationships between factors in nature are just too entangled for man to unravel through research and analysis. Perhaps science succeeds in advancing one slow step at a time, but because it does so while groping in total darkness along a road without end, it is unable to know the real truth of things. This is why scientists are pleased with partial explications and see nothing wrong with pointing a finger and proclaiming this to be the cause and that the effect."
@tripu Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture - Observation vs Concept... off base concepts... make mgmt decisions in wrong direction http://bit.ly/1lM3PFS