Once you start having a narrative for an evolving phenomena, every additional thing you sense you'll interpret into the narrative.

· Bits and Bobs 2/3/25
  • Once you start having a narrative for an evolving phenomena, every additional thing you sense you'll interpret into the narrative.
    • Things that don't fit, you'll be structurally more likely to ignore as noise.
    • But the noise you ignore might collectively be structured enough to suggest that the model / narrative is wrong.
    • Theory coevolves with raw experience.
    • Be wary of putting on blinders too early in the process of model construction.
    • We're never done constructing models; the world is not static and continues to change.
    • Just because the model has been a good one for the past ten years does not mean it will continue to work just as well in the next ten years.
      • The longer it's worked, the more likely it will continue to work, but it can never be perfect; there's an invisible asymptote it's approaching.