2026-10-20 20:31 UTC
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @cstross@wandering.shop Models are hard. Accurate models for nontrivial systems are *really* hard.
"macro economists have predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions."
Classic dunking on economists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-10-20 20:35
@grumble209@kolektiva.social @cstross@wandering.shop The most hilarious thing about the character I am referring to is he’s using system dynamics. And I have a couple of years of interacting with this character. It was when he was saying things that mounted to he’s grabbing random(Cobb) functions off the shelf and throwing them at the wall into his models that, that I started just backing away. There’s a difference between flinging shit on the wall to see if it sticks and tinkering