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What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything

Village Global Podcast

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Reproducing the Social Sciences?

In physics, you get this enormous ability to do inference about a particle's behavior. So I don't think that kind of control an inference may never be possible in the social sciences. Is it going to end up a little bit like the relationship between fluid dynamics and weather and climate? It doesn't mean you can really predict very much, but you can understand the long term.

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