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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 09:59:26 JST Paul Cantrell

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   @aubilenon
   Yes, the frictionless spherical cow is a perfect comparison. And there is a line of thought (Chicago School, Milton Friedman, etc), increasingly discredited but once ascendant and still influential, that in my view amounts to “cows really are frictionless and spherical and if you think they’re not you’re just looking at them in the wrong way.”

   A skim here will give the flavor:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory

   It’s subtler than “people are perfectly rational,” but no less absurd in the end.