Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI...
by webmaven on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:53PM
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> it's not enough to just have a purely abstract set of metrics on which to base resource allocation: it will always require actual investigation of why good schools produce good results and why students do poorly in specific schools."
The problem here is that many stakeholders really really* want to reduce the required intervention to a mechanistic increase/decrease of some sort, never mind that different stakeholders want opposite interventions.
No matter how "intelligently" you go about it (whether the intelligence is natural or artificial), this desire to simply boil down policy making to reallocating resources or incentives/disincentives is fundamentally lazy. It reminds me of the mania for diversified conglomerates and corporate management of the firm-as-portfolio (ie. reducing management's function to determining financial allocation between corporate units and deemphasizing the need for operational knowledge) during the 1970s.
The problem here is that many stakeholders really really* want to reduce the required intervention to a mechanistic increase/decrease of some sort, never mind that different stakeholders want opposite interventions.
No matter how "intelligently" you go about it (whether the intelligence is natural or artificial), this desire to simply boil down policy making to reallocating resources or incentives/disincentives is fundamentally lazy. It reminds me of the mania for diversified conglomerates and corporate management of the firm-as-portfolio (ie. reducing management's function to determining financial allocation between corporate units and deemphasizing the need for operational knowledge) during the 1970s.