Yeah, I think one of the main ideas in social science is that of double hermeneutic. Right, so as you offer interpretations to society, once the society becomes aware of that interpretation, then the society also changes in how it sees itself. And so it also interprets back. So it is not a top-down system where you see a problem and then you solve the problem. Solutionism doesn’t work. Any solution you design also changes how society functions and that causes new problems. Right? So it is not like an artificial system where if you have good enough mathematics, you can prove there are no bugs anymore, you end up with bug-free code.

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