StopTech@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoPollsters are now asking AIs to answer surveys as if they were humans and passing the results off as poll statisticsfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square82linkfedilinkarrow-up1661cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·29 days agoThe problem with economics as a science is that testing some theories can be very expensive.
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days agoI’ve always viewed economics as a pseudo-science. There might be some ways to apply the scientific method to economic systems, but even if so it would be a soft science at best. But that’s not even what’s happening in conventional economic theory, and they try to treat it like a hard science.
The problem with economics as a science is that testing some theories can be very expensive.
I’ve always viewed economics as a pseudo-science.
There might be some ways to apply the scientific method to economic systems, but even if so it would be a soft science at best.
But that’s not even what’s happening in conventional economic theory, and they try to treat it like a hard science.