SoullessAutomaton comments on Macroeconomics, The Lucas Critique, Microfoundations, and Modeling in General - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Matt_Simpson 06 June 2009 04:35AM

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Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 06 June 2009 04:52:23PM *  0 points [-]

I don't think you are disagreeing with me at all.

I don't think so, either, except possibly to quibble about an analogy. Sorry if I wasn't clear on that. I was more attempting to discuss what seems to be the confusion you were responding to and make a more general point, that worrying about high-level models reducing to low-level models is potentially misguided if it's just reductionism for its own sake.