Comment by benten on Beware of small world puzzles · 2021-08-30T23:12:32.089Z · LW · GW

Interesting post, and illustrative of a more broad-reaching issue  (I believe exists) with academia in the past century. Too much of our understanding is based on experiments conducted in a lab, so we underestimate the complexity and connectiveness of the outside world. We generalize results from sanitized vials and beakers into the dirty, chaotic world and then wonder why we get so many things wrong. 

Cheers