And thus, adopting Hanlon's Razor as a principle for how you interpret the world will greatly reduce your feelings of threat and fear on a day to day basis. (It may _not_ reduce frustration or irritation, but it at least usually leaves you with more potentially-productive paths to pursue. Ignorance is remediable!)
>Nothing inherent to the thing itself instructs us as to what the most essential features about it are to be captured in a simplified model.
Nothing about that one thing, but its quite constrained when considering the world a a whole. To predict a certain thing about the future, you certain information about today is important. But everything that happens in the future depends on everything there is, to some extent. And so over long timescales, it doesnt matter what you want to predict, it will always be the same questions about today that are important.
And thus, adopting Hanlon's Razor as a principle for how you interpret the world will greatly reduce your feelings of threat and fear on a day to day basis. (It may _not_ reduce frustration or irritation, but it at least usually leaves you with more potentially-productive paths to pursue. Ignorance is remediable!)
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>Nothing inherent to the thing itself instructs us as to what the most essential features about it are to be captured in a simplified model.
Nothing about that one thing, but its quite constrained when considering the world a a whole. To predict a certain thing about the future, you certain information about today is important. But everything that happens in the future depends on everything there is, to some extent. And so over long timescales, it doesnt matter what you want to predict, it will always be the same questions about today that are important.