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#108 - Dr. JOEL LEHMAN - Machine Love [Staff Favourite]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Lens of the Model

I mean, a lot of this comes back to the lenses that we use. So game theory is an interesting example. That was invented by von Neumann in the 20th century. And it was controversial used by Iann Rand and later in economics and so on. Although you might want to comment on that approach of modeling them. But you mentioned how such a framework would render irrational behavior like addiction axiomatically impossible. And then you spoke to the approach in psychology. Even the psychology approach fails the bitter lesson test. It imputes yet more reductive human abstractions into the model.

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