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I agree with you, but at the same time, I think it’s easy to dismiss this whole line of thought as quacky. It’s very hard to argue with tables and plots. Econ
by mirker 5y ago
I agree with you, but at the same time, I think it’s easy to dismiss this whole line of thought as quacky.
It’s very hard to argue with tables and plots.
Economics has a lot of mathematical work for similar “hard science” reasons.
- Ericson2314 5y agoIt's not how academia is structured, but backing up criticism with a protoype of the alternative IMO completely solves the credability problem. From the vantage of the social sciences, where one can only dream of running prototype towns and cities, this is a gift and systems researchers should consider themselves lucky.
- mirker 5y agoWhat if there are many alternatives? Each implementation would be a challenge to optimize fairly. You’d be forced to have some open competition to make it convincing.
- Ericson2314 5y agoI'm confused what you mean? The prototypes need not be performant, they just must be correct and not outrageously naive to demonstrate the better abstractions/layering is working. The questions are: is the code beautiful and dose it work?
- mirker 5y agoAh well that requires a lot of manual inspection. Usually there isn’t enough attention span to do that in practice.