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Liking your work and am inspired to read more of Meaningness. Am lingering on your specific point about the 2008 crisis though. Do you have any deeper references to the statistical modeling flaws that led to the crisis? Deeper than say, “The Big Short”?
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Have you read Taleb? More detail than Big Short probably.
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Is this from http://meaningness.com or black Swan? I've been reading both recently and this could be from either!
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I don't think either the 2008 financial crisis or the replication crisis are well-summarized by "probabilistic methods don't work here."
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intuitively i feel that studying history and philosophy of science (and the humanities in general) is the way to balance this out, but i haven't really thought it through... i'd be curious to hear others' takes on how to mitigate this kind of reductionism
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to be clear, i mean history of the technical field, as a code monkey i feel like history of CS has really helped me to contextualize my knowledge better, whereas phil of sci courses i took at uni helped me to recognize the limits of models in a broader sense
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