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by ysofunny 854 days ago
I think in some other context it's actually preferred to be precisely wrong than roughly correct

maybe this is the difference between a business (or engineering) mindset of "it must work effectively, how and why it works are secondary"

in contrast with a perhaps more phillosophical (scientific? purely mathematical? reverse engineering?) study goal? in which case whether something works is secondary to having a full theory of what's going on