To overly rely on science is to often discard things which cannot be easily described, measured, etc. By trying to formalize the known and the dim edges of the unknown, we become too quick to dismiss the truly unknown.

When measurement is the only way of thinking about the world, it brings about an admixture of certainty and naivety that makes our minds surprisingly feeble.

Measurements are so powerfully misleading that they make people literally delusional. Goodhart's law is the norm. Not just in crappy research papers that don't replicate, but in everything from job titles to governance itself.

We elevated "science", but science does not think.

Measurement-only thinking has replaced everything from play to good taste and obscures why we even have measurements. It's no wonder everything built today is ugly. Beauty can't be counted, so it doesn't get a line item in many people's budget, or even their emotional accounting.

The simplest examples are in the functional things we use every day, like cars or buildings or dishes. The older designers of cars understood something that we do not, *because* they had fewer metrics to go by. Porsche for example is not a company that could be created today.

Because you can be 100% accurate and measure the wrong thing.

The UN in 2005 gave carbon credits to co's that destroyed the pollutant HFC-23. Companies began to produce more coolant just to destroy more of the HFC-23 byproduct waste gas, to collect $$$ https://twitter.com/Eule_Geheule/status/1253506763460169735