'Ergodicity Economics' is Pseudoscience · HackerPapers discussions

'Ergodicity Economics' is Pseudoscience — mentioned by littlestymaar

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 14:32:17 GMT

> Edit: looks like it’s not just me: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03275.pdf Well, a lone author publishing a 4 page essay on arXiv isn't particularly compelling to say the least. I could take two hours of my afternoon and write “«‘Ergodicity Economics’ is Pseudoscience» is Pseudoscience” and publish it there. In fact, the author of the said PDF[1] explicitly write down that he doesn't really attempted to understand the point of the guy he's criticizing: From the second paragraph: > it is not easy to define what EE is because I am not an expert on this field > It is not clear what kind of…

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'Ergodicity Economics' is Pseudoscience — mentioned by jl6

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 08:41:15 GMT

There’s a chance I’m doing this a great disservice, but this whole site and subject seems to scream pseudoscience. It seems largely pushed by one guy - Ole Peters. It seems he created the Wikipedia page on this subject. His research is done under the umbrella of the authoritative sounding “London Mathematical Laboratory”, which he founded. It makes giant claims, like the headline here which seems intended to be read as “mathematics proves collectivism is best” - and yet offers little empirical evidence beyond saying that an abstract mathematical model can tell us something about the real…

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'Ergodicity Economics' is Pseudoscience — HN submission

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:47:47 GMT

'Ergodicity Economics' Is Pseudoscience

3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.