It's been a while since the last blog post, but here is a new one. Maybe the most ambitious ever 😄

We feel that we understand things when certain patterns of explanations are in place. If reality doesn't follow those patterns, our understanding suffers. On to the third such eureka fallacy I've blogged about: explanation by optimization.

https://petterhol.me/2025/12/10/the-eureka-fallacy-of-optimization/