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Economics is largely a prestige circle jerk. Anyone outside the top ivy departments has near zero chance of publishing research that gets traction. There is a s
by llmslave 1y ago
Economics is largely a prestige circle jerk. Anyone outside the top ivy departments has near zero chance of publishing research that gets traction. There is a small cabal of people that perpetuate this behavior. The field also just isnt that useful
There are many careers like this, including management consulting and high finance. The hope is that AI flips the script and democratizes these important functions in society
- nextworddev 1y agoDoubtful the AI democratizes this. If anything it centralizes power and capital even more.
- _9ptr 1y agoOne of the more salutary effects of AI will be the removal of bad journalism and bad science (bad in the sense of slop).
- contagiousflow 1y agoCan I ask you why you think that will happen?
- _9ptr 1y agoBecause the job can be done by AI. Yes, I was unprecise to the point of being wrong.
- contagiousflow 1y agoWhy wouldn't you assume that AI doing it would only increase the amount of bad journalism and bad science? If the cost of something goes down shouldn't the amount of it increase?
- nextworddev 1y agoWrong. The bad journalism just now uses AI.
- _9ptr 1y agoYou're right
- thatguy0900 1y agoPeople in power (including the people running these Ai companies) love bad journalism and bad science.
- coliveira 1y agoYou lost me when you mentioned management consulting and high finance as important functions in society.