What's your favorite kind of crackpot?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Lmao she calls economics a "hard science" when talking about Nate Silver michael-laugh

    Liberal economics is not a hard science.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Her heart is in the right place, bless her, but whatever theory she’s read isn’t Marxist.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        She can probably be fixed, just need to ask her what would happen if the crackpots were in charge of the sciences, then explain that is what has happened to economics via the chicago school.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah that's definitely true. She is anticapitalist to some extent though, if you watch her video on AI she basically says the same thing ML's have been saying for forever, that AI is only an instrument that reduces the amount of specialized labor that goes into each commodity, but firms will still need workers to make their products (but with lower wages and less bargaining power now).