Does anyone else ever worry that the scientific method doesn't work and instead it's just that any heavy computation (like doing a bunch of math in order to model some phenomenon) exhausts the local resources and makes the universe more malleable? Maybe we just tell ourselves that math is unreasonably effective because the truth that it's damaging the fabric of reality is too disturbing.
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