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Do you agree with Crichton that it was wrong for newspapers to report on expert predictions the 2002 steel tariffs would affect US GDP or employment? Do you th
by mherdeg 6y ago
Do you agree with Crichton that it was wrong for newspapers to report on expert predictions the 2002 steel tariffs would affect US GDP or employment?
Do you think in retrospect this was a reasonable things for experts to predict?
That was the central tenet of the 2002 speech laying out the Gell-Mann amnesia effect (some prior discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18005236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18005236 )