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It's funny, because I initially thought the title was about regulators as in "government regulators", not about control theory. Even more interesting is the fa
by ur-whale 7y ago
It's funny, because I initially thought the title was about regulators as in "government regulators", not about control theory.
Even more interesting is the fact that this idea from control theory in fact completely transposes to government regulation, as in: it'd be really good if regulators had the faintest idea what they're doing (aka in a perfect world, they would have a somewhat decent model of the system they're trying to regulate).
Except ... that's very probably not the case ... (I'm looking at you economists).
- jplayer01 7y ago> Except ... that's very probably not the case ... (I'm looking at you economists). I'm not sure I agree. From what I've seen, it's usually politicians that ignore unintended consequences and incentives that lead to poor outcomes. Not sure what that has to do with economists ... they don't run the country.