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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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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social scientists should be embarrassed to pretend to knowledge under these conditions knowing what I know now about its whats possible to know about the consequences of manipulating complex systems under the best possible condition just quit just fucking fall on your swords
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It's incredible to read about a policy, then go through all of the studies that supposedly support it. It's like opening the hood of a car and the engine is a series of legos that have been assembled by children.
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