Specifically, I’m talking about when discussing extremely complex systems, ones that we don’t have full understanding of, there’s this tendency at a certain point of complexity to throw your hands up and say:
“because we can’t understand all of it perfectly then we can’t understand any of it and so just rely on these exceptionally loose grained impossible to define heuristics that have no comparability reference or baseline or anything meaningfully objective”
It’s like completely abandoning the concept of science measurement and just going full in with nothing matters we can’t measure it so do whatever you want.
Is it a failure of communication or is this an actual cognitive pattern that we can define?
It seems like a basic implementation of the all or nothing fallacy