The reductionist mindset is "indirect effects are either unknowable or unimportant."
- The reductionist mindset is "indirect effects are either unknowable or unimportant."
- It's a version of the streetlight fallacy.
- Focus on what's measurable, not what's important.
- It ignores externalities, nuance, complexity.
- It denies emergence.
- As a result, it hollows everything out.
- Gives a superficial version that is dead inside, a zombie, shambling along, undead.
- Computer Science is the maximal version of this mindset.
- Humanities is where you learn to soak in the indirect effects even though they can't be measured and quantized.