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A retrospective on agency (Ep 100)

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The Importance of Modeling Evolutionary Change

I think that any kind of model that improves our understanding of how things work is something that, you know, who wouldn't want that? Everybody wants that. What I haven't seen articulated is what changes. It's not just that we want a model that includes a vicious abstraction because useful models have to have vicious abstractions. And so practically, it's time to stop living in the modern synthesis world or tacitly representing it as our backbone.

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