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> > Of course certain things behave the way you expect them to and you can
> > create a model that explains a lot. But much of the memeverse doesn't.
> > Otherwise you would not be surprised by things that familiar people do--
> > you would not have a difference of opinion with a complete stranger. You
> > would not find a surprise friendship in someone you might not have
> > considered being friends with....
>
> I'm /not/ often surprised by things familliar people do, if I were
> they wouldn't be familliar. You needn't invoke flawed models to
> account for that, incomplete information with which to fill the model
> is an equal culprit in the thing. Much of the memeverse /depends/ on
> `good enough' modeling; you can interpret my writing `good enough' to
> model what I mean to impart, you can make a `good enough' model of
> your friend's weekend to know whether you should call him and ask him
> if he wants to see a movie, you can make a `good enough' model of your
> room in the dark to find the door with only a barked shin not a broken
> leg.
>
> Perfection is unnecessary and largely undesired.
Straighten out your definition of perfection!!!!
Imperfectly-defined "perfection" is DEFINITELY unnecessary and undesired.
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