lessons from guilliver's travel

[hyunjimoon]

Four Countries(Methodological School)	Origin & Vision	Gulliver’s Symbol and Lesson	Practical Limitation
[[Lilliput (Optimization)]]	- Origin: War (Operations/Management) - Vision: Minimize uncertainty to “win”	[[🥚Egg-breaking controversy]] Missing the forest for the trees	- Over-focus on one metric (e.g., cost)- Trivial optimization ignoring bigger-picture constraints e.g. optimized cow's food that tastes awful
[[Brobdingnag (Agent-Based simulation)]]	- Origin: Society, human behavior - Vision: Modeling emergence and complexity	[[🔍Magnifying glass on human flaws]]	- High calibration burden for agent rules - Complexity can hide emergent patterns when data is scarce
[[Laputa (Differential Equation simulation)]]	- Origin: Relation-based math - Vision: Abstract structures & relationships	[[💥Flappers to jolt abstract thinkers]]	- Equations can drift from real-world realities - New variables get overlooked if too focused on elegant theory
[[Houyhnhnms (Bayesian)]]	- Origin: Statistics, cognition - Vision: update belief given belief and desire	[[🧠rational horse vs 🫀primal yahoo]]	- Can overlook unknown unknowns - Strict reliance on prior data struggles with truly novel events