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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read The Billiard Ball by Asimov to understand why a gravitationally “locked” device would not work.

  You lose the frame of reference to the astral bodies around it, therefore it stays in place as the Earth and everything else simply move past it. Essentially useless as an anchor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do when you're lacking direction in life?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Compass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears or no bears?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  America wants them renamed the 52nd and 53rd states. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Epistemologically correct way to phrase that, actually. They had the idea, they expressed it, and they refined it into an output they were hoping for. It’s no different in methodology, just different in participation and self-effort.

  You semantics-warriors wouldn’t understand that if it hit you in the head like a sack of bricks though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, because the lexicology must match fucking exactly? You clearly don’t have the brainpower to actually scour the comments yourself and depend on document searches. Idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine not knowing what a statistical counterfactual is. Telling on yourself, cretin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Screw you, boycotting idiot. Did you even consider that boycotting one of the only good company creates perverse incentives?

  Actually no you’re probably incapable of that type of thought like the rest of your dumbass hive-mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Disappointment is one thing. If you ignore and downplay some of the “boycott” and “cancel” comments on this post, you’re just hiding your head in the sand about the lunacy.

  GOG is still one of the good ones, if not best ones. Don’t delude yourselves with your better-than-thou unplaced arrogance.

  As if you all were immune to mistakes and the occasional tripping 🙄…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG now using AI generated images on their store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are fanatics if this turns you away from GOG, while other stores are egregiously using an insane amount of AI stuff and you don’t bat an eye.

  Cultists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, we do run RCTs. There are entire branches of economics that can be entirely controlled for, double-blind and randomized. For example microeconomic theory and game theory.

  Yes, there are fields that get unethical to experiment under as you scale things up (think macroeconomics), which is why we have famous papers like The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation - AJR.

  Natural experiments are used all the time in many fields, especially the social sciences, for ethicality. That doesn’t make them less valuable, as they test for things you would have never gotten to test for through RCTs, and don’t serve as a “crutch” due to the lack of RCTs. They serve different purposes.

  And that’s just one aspect people get wrong, economics isn’t all about straight lines like another (vehemently wrong) commenter was saying. It’s also not about politics, even though the economics of politics are taught conceptually. At least in my European university, no one forced ideology with the study of the median voter theorem or Vickrey auctions, among many other topics.

  Anyway, rant over. This whole post is a rage-bait and people engaging in it are either ignorant of the subject matter (totally fine if you’re willing to learn and accept you’re wrong) or simply rage-baiters themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they make those assumptions, they are not economists, they are politicians. Learning to distinguish the difference is the same skillset boomers need to pick up on in relation to real images and AI generation… Clearly you lack in that department.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough labour economics was taught as an elective at my undergrad in Utrecht University. This whole post makes me mad considering the amount of work it was getting through that bachelor’s, and especially so when you consider they literally had data science integrated as one of the optional minors… Which I took.

  These people don’t have the slightest clue about economics beyond what they’re taught they manage to learn in highschool, and therefore forecast that pitiful amount of knowledge to an entire empirical field… Probably to make themselves feel better. Human discount model in motion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re so incredibly dumb, the flailing is hilarious. You wouldn’t pass micro I, let alone macro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's barely a science.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So the moderator of science memes does not know a single thing about modern economics and its empirical methodology. What a joke.