RomeoStevens comments on Economy gossip open thread - Less Wrong

22 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 October 2012 04:10AM

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Comment author: gwern 28 October 2012 08:00:03PM 0 points [-]

But how are you going to write it without becoming an actuary? Or sell it to the insurance giants? (Wouldn't they rather buy their own in-house software, tuned to their idiosyncratic needs? This is probably what is happening with that requirement "programming skills"...)

Comment author: RomeoStevens 28 October 2012 09:24:55PM 0 points [-]

If it were easy there would already be kickass actuarial software. You might be right that one would need to become an actuary to do it. At least that is the normal path for this sort of thing.