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NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 August 2015 10:24:13PM 0 points [-]

I took it to mean that if we're trying to identify what's important, there's an optimum level of abstraction, and there's currently a push in the social sciences to add so much detail that the principle gets obscured.