so fucked around at work today did some thinking reflecting on it, hahahahahahaha GOVERNMENTS
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can you imagine earnestly proposing some social engineering scheme can you just imagine that kind of insane hubris
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I control a thing at work I can run all sorts of experiments, things people in academia have never dreamed of my analytic powers are boundless everything is measured and you know what with all this, on rare occasions we can move some metric a percent or two over baseline
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usually things get worse occasionally they get much worse we actually bother to measure this though and revert if we need to
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now im thinking about congress just fucking breezing into the capital and fucking PASSING BILLS ALL GODDSMN DAY YEEEHAW
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AN NESCIS MI FILI QVANTILLA PRVDENTIA MVNDVS REGATVR
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this is insane this is absolute madness nothing is tested! nothing!!! when was the last time a fucking government program shipped after a careful A/B test???? where are their fucking realtime metrics? where are the backtests? NO ONE KNOWS ANYTHING NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW EITHER
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Wherein Eigen discovers the Lucas Critique and RCTs
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i was an economist in a former life i just see new angles to it occasionally and it caused me fresh pain
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i enjoying mysekf by the lake, but then i remembered instances of insuperable endogeneity in policy evaluation, and the bias in my point estimates
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