Connor Leahy on AGI and Cognitive Emulation
Future of Life Institute Podcast
Clever simplifications in economics and science
The critique of economics for making crazy assumptions like the market being efficient is misguided. Economics, like all of science, aims to find clever simplifications that allow complex problems to be simplified into a manageable space for reasoning. For example, the efficient market hypothesis is not literally true in reality, but it serves as a useful simplification for analysis.
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