KatieHartman comments on The Need for Universal Experience Classes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: KatieHartman 19 October 2011 07:24:29PM 4 points [-]

I'd like to know of a science - any science, social or otherwise - that can be optimally useful without utilizing mathematical analysis.

Comment author: Barry_Cotter 19 October 2011 07:40:13PM 3 points [-]

I suspect this is like demanding a married bachelor. If you understand something well enough to have a theory that explains a lot about something's characteristics or behaviour you can probably model this abstraction mathematically. And math is unreasonably effective at manipulating abstractions.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 October 2011 01:35:43AM 0 points [-]

Math can be a very powerful tool. I don't think anybody is arguing against that possibility here?