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Re:Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: s... by chinchilla2020 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:40PM (#30140366)
Complex human thought processes cannot be modeled by a simplified mathematical model
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Re:Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: s... by uniqueuid on Sunday January 30, 2022 @02:45PM (#30140403)
Right.

But simple human behavior can often be modeled by a simplified mathematical model :)

My two favorite quotes on the subject are of course George Box:

> all models are wrong, but some are useful

And Avery Pennarun:

> almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand, because mostly the ML is trained by feeding it examples of what humans did while following a very dumb heuristic.

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