tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post7477237949515263279..comments2023-06-18T01:25:08.748-07:00Comments on Information Transfer Economics: #notallphysicistsJason Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12680061127040420047noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-66359743007391884412016-01-07T08:59:23.741-08:002016-01-07T08:59:23.741-08:00"Where's the map of the cat?"
-- Ric..."Where's the map of the cat?"<br />-- Richard Feynman<br /><br />(Approximate quotation.) ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-13396325088509020512016-01-06T15:36:01.685-08:002016-01-06T15:36:01.685-08:00BTW, that reminds me: I listened to a story on the...BTW, that reminds me: I listened to <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/545/if-you-dont-have-anything-nice-to-say-say-it-in-all-caps?act=4" rel="nofollow">a story on the radio</a> the other day about a guy who programmed a troll-bot to harass himself (<a href="http://anxietybox.com/" rel="nofollow">which he then made available to the general public</a>). He could respond to the trolling with unlimited insults of his own, which he claims was psychologically therapeutic. Tom Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654184190478330946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-56794685597279152162016-01-06T15:15:47.656-08:002016-01-06T15:15:47.656-08:00Lol... I doubt it's Sadowski actually. Doesn&#...Lol... I doubt it's Sadowski actually. Doesn't sound like his style. Plus he's got a job. Maybe your first two hunches are closer.Tom Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654184190478330946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-89961778606128851122016-01-06T13:08:35.411-08:002016-01-06T13:08:35.411-08:00Ha!
A good quote is this:
In a similar way, I th...Ha!<br /><br />A good quote is this:<br /><br /><i>In a similar way, I think, the neo-classical ideal is a tolerable approximation in certain limits. Since I am writing a blog post, and not a treatise on economic methodology, I will be vague about specifying those limits, but one aspect ought to be low computational complexity, relative to the cognitive capacity of the decision-maker.</i><br /><br />In a sense, the information transfer model is the "zero computational complexity limit" in which random actions solve the economic allocation problem.Jason Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680061127040420047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-83644279096877614072016-01-06T12:58:06.517-08:002016-01-06T12:58:06.517-08:00Sorry just reading Cosma Shalizi's rant (link ...Sorry just reading Cosma Shalizi's rant (link above), and couldn't help reposting:<br /><br /><i>Physicists have not taken to slaughtering each other to secure faculty positions (outside of Dorothy Sucher's very amusing mystery novel, Dead Men Don't Give Seminars), nor are there many illnesses which reduce our numbers</i>Todd Zorickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10976192775890569092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-54030459017820906202016-01-06T12:46:08.236-08:002016-01-06T12:46:08.236-08:00It always looks like a case of projection to me, a...It always looks like a case of projection to me, at least when coming from economists. Economists tend to colonize other fields with abandon (that comic above could easily be interpreted as an economist talking to another social scientist), but get all bent out of shape when physicists do it to them.<br /><br />Additionally, since physics is actually pretty successful empirically there really aren't any other fields that can colonize physics in the same way ... Jason Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680061127040420047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-34934369123206053332016-01-06T12:36:11.675-08:002016-01-06T12:36:11.675-08:00It's always odd when someone keeps calling you...It's always odd when someone keeps calling you an idiot but never references what the idiocy is. Usually someone who thinks you are an idiot for what he or she thinks is a good reason loves to point out that reason.<br /><br />The fact that I re-derive several mainstream economic models (e.g. above) suggests that the person might be a Marxist or Austrian economist.<br /><br />Or it is Sadowski and he still thinks he can detrend time series data with major structural breaks without considering that it might present some issues ... or at least model dependence.Jason Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680061127040420047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-71422660572135417182016-01-06T12:19:49.273-08:002016-01-06T12:19:49.273-08:00As a non-physicist let me defend physicists. First...As a non-physicist let me defend physicists. First of all, it seems to me that unlike virtually all other academic fields, physics is defined as the application of mathematical models to natural phenomena generally. Therefore, to complain that physicists do such things is to complain that they are doing physics. So it is a very cool thing that people who are really good at making mathematical models of natural phenomena find new types of natural phenomena to model and apply their tools to. It's only annoying if they have some insights that people slaving their whole lives studying some field did not realize before. If the models are wrong, or unhelpful, it does no damage to the field. /end rant. Todd Zorickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10976192775890569092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837159629100463303.post-18984900297358466032016-01-06T10:47:07.851-08:002016-01-06T10:47:07.851-08:00Haha... looks like I get an "assist" on ...Haha... looks like I get an "assist" on Nick's "super mad" comment, since their quote of him was preceded by "Tom:"... I did indicate I was just ribbing him. And then on EJMR there was this, in regards Nick's comment:<br /><br />"I wouldn't say he gets mad. Or is this mad for a Canadian?"<br /><br />Someone else points out he's not a native Canadian though.<br /><br />Do you suppose f2b6 is Sadowski?<br /><br />"That information transfer moron is still posting crap? Remarkable persistence for a complete idiot."<br /><br />LolTom Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654184190478330946noreply@blogger.com