Stabilizer comments on Rationality Quotes December 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stabilizer 07 December 2013 10:34:41PM * 23 points [-]

In every way that people, firms, or governments act and plan, they are making implicit forecasts about the future.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 December 2013 11:54:18PM 0 points [-]

It might be my hindsight bias acting again, but wasn't this kinda obvious? I thought the discipline of economics was based on this assumption.