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I think if people just chill out and accept that the strong form is a model that allows us to sketch out a lower bound of possible outcomes, everyone will be better off.

Throwing a model away because it isn't perfect is a case of nirvana fallacy. All models are wrong. We build them because they're mentally tractable. So long as the value of the model exceeds the costs of mismatch, they're a boon.



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