Math, Science, and Logic Are Predictive Models
Epistemic status: content summarized and synthesized (0-1 steps of reasoning) from the Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Unreasonable Effectiveness I’ve heard several people – professors, peers, and folks on the internet – express surprise at the "unreasonable effectiveness” of mathematics in describing the physical universe. In other words, they claim to be surprised that mathematical laws are able to describe the workings of the universe so precisely. From a certain point…