For whatever it’s worth, high energy physics is only one of Platt’s examples—the other is molecular biology. And much ofthe basis for evolutionary biology has a quantitative, physics-style way of working. I’m tempted to suggest that evolutionary biology has been so much more unambiguously successful than microeconomics and AI because it has aped physics so well!
For whatever it’s worth, high energy physics is only one of Platt’s examples—the other is molecular biology. And much of the basis for evolutionary biology has a quantitative, physics-style way of working. I’m tempted to suggest that evolutionary biology has been so much more unambiguously successful than microeconomics and AI because it has aped physics so well!