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Danish government makes its new economic model open source

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

thomasahle wrote: post #158

I wonder if this could be used to automatically suggest new policies? Presumably the optimizer will tell you exactly which input variables to tweak to increase the final number/gpd/which ever. As the saying goes "any metric is bad once you optimize for it", so maybe that would lead to terrible politics. That makes me worry if large actors can use the model to make any self-serving policy suggestion "look" like a good…

>I wonder if this could be used to automatically suggest new policies?

Yes, you tweak variables and look at the impulse-response functions. That's what those models are built for.

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Post by eclat »

mbar84 wrote: post #67

Economics is not a science like physics. We can't do controlled experiments, we can't falsify hypothesis. This leads to very muddy waters and what you are left with are two kinds of economists: Those who tell people what they want to hear and those nobody listens to. Econometrics gives people everything they want to hear, and with a scientific veneer as a bonus. The HN crowd should however appreciate how susceptible…

The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, … which is treating what is vague as if it were precise… F. P. RAMSEY.

From Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies

Re: Danish government makes its new economic model open source

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Post by CRConrad »

sshine wrote: post #46
m00dy wrote: post #45

Turkish Government needs to take a look at this.

Do you mean the Turkiye government? ;) (Reference to the recent news item that Erdogan made a public statement in which he renamed Turkey to Turkiye in English.)

Türkiye, to be precise.

Re: Danish government makes its new economic model open source

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Post by CRConrad »

stubish wrote: post #73
daxuak wrote: post #16

I bet there has to be better solutions than github.

I bet there are not. A 3rd party willing to host and distribute your code for free without any contractual burdens which already hosts the vast bulk of your audience and the tools they will use. Seems a great idea, rather than spending money to self host or pay a different brand name and all the follow on expenses, for a worse result. Unless you are a government contractor.

One would think the Danish government could afford to put up a server of their own, either in some computer lab of their own or a rented one at some purveyor of such. Especially as they wouldn't need a very big one, since they don't actually need all the stupid Web bumf that is good only for making naïve developers think git means github. They could just put actual git on it, publish the address, and people can do a

   git clone
on their command line. They're supposed to be developers, right?
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