On: Individuals Matter

[nimish]

"All models are wrong, but some are useful"

A lot of so-called experts don't quite grasp the former and don't care about the latter. They cannot be relied upon for actual decision making, since the low level details are what's hard!

[nimithryn → nimish]

Then what do you rely on for decision making? Gut instinct? That’s a model too, albeit unformalized.