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by vdaniuk 4607 days ago
Thats a good argument and may be generalized by quoting George Edward Box "Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful."
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I occasionally reread Isaac Asimov's The Relativity of Wrong. While Yudkowsky's The Simple Truth is more rigorous, I find the brevity of Asimov's essay more refreshing. Another perennial favorite of mine is George Orwell's Politics and the English Language.

http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

Great links, thanks.