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Comment author: cupholder 24 May 2010 08:30:47PM *  2 points [-]

For whatever it's worth, high energy physics is only one of Platt's examples - the other is molecular biology. And much of the basis for evolutionary biology has a quantitative, physics-style way of working. I'm tempted to suggest that evolutionary biology has been so much more unambiguously successful than microeconomics and AI because it has aped physics so well!