Quotes on Models and Their Uses
For thinking about and highlighting the more fundamental aspects and broader considerations of science/engineering models
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
The illusion of autonomous desire is, as René Girard outlines in Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, fundamentally deceitful. Rather than moving directly from subject to object, desire is mediated by an additional position of “the model.” Desire based on this unconscious sense of mimicry is what gives it its triangular structure.
Value Models
Nguyen argues that metrics and our overreliance on quantitative data are making us unhappy. Metrics are removing from our lives the qualities that make living like a game. Metrics are what led to his own value collapse, and he thinks it is leading to the same kind of collapse in the lives of many others all around.
Nguyen introduces what he calls... See more
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The Magpie 4: Metrics and the Loss of Values
from: https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-magpie-4-metrics-and-the-loss-of-values
(with example from education)
"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower
... See moreMark Twain
Things that happen very seldom we all leave out of our calculations, whether they are miraculous or not.