[ExI] A Working Quantum Computer by 2017?
Anders
anders at aleph.se
Tue Sep 6 22:31:05 UTC 2016
On 2016-09-07 00:18, William Flynn Wallace wrote:
>
> So I won't worry - the modelers are on the job. Biggest worry -
> economic models based on faulty theories of human behavior.
> Now the question is: are there any other kind?
Remember Box's dictum: "all models are wrong, but some are useful". If
you demand perfect theories of human behavior you cannot get any
information from any social science at all.
Babies and bathwater.
--
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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