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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-10-06 22:24:44

Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?
So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel will cause any harm!
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-10-07 17:59:16

SIMPLETON: Yes, this will crash the economy because wrong math = lost money
EXPERT: No, this won’t crash the economy because people screw up even without AI, business operations are already riddled with ridiculous errors, and human systems have grown resilient to pervasive local failure
WISE SAGE: Yes, this will crash the economy because the economy is currently propped up by gullible investors •believing• this BS is real actual magic, and if they find out it it sucks like normal, the bubble pops
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