Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This gives every model a rhetorical direction and points to needing multiple models for every disagreement. The only productive extension is to make the primitives even more adversarial to the conclusion. 120
Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Canonical economic models everyone agrees on are rarer than I expected, coming from physics. When they exist it's often a selection effect, where the model defines the field rather than the field converging on truth. 120
Nathan Franz @nathanfranz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Perhaps a literature makes real progress when adversarial models, built from opposite sides' premises, converge on similar conclusions. The remaining disagreement becomes empirical rather than theoretical. 120
