General relativity doesn’t help anyone throw a basketball better, but that’s not what it’s for.
Category theory is rarely going to be the best way to do any kind of science, but it does nonetheless allow one to make statements which are true across many domains, without getting bogged down in the details of any particular subject.
> General relativity doesn’t help anyone throw a basketball better, but that’s not what it’s for.
Yes, of course! And as a physicist, I don't ask basketball players to use general relativity.
But I'm responding to a post claiming the category theory really is useful, directly, for science. And just like the basketball player, I'm saying that it really isn't.
Category theory is rarely going to be the best way to do any kind of science, but it does nonetheless allow one to make statements which are true across many domains, without getting bogged down in the details of any particular subject.