AABoyles comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AABoyles 19 September 2014 06:05:49PM 0 points [-]

I'm in the business of modeling. I do all three of those tasks, but the emphasis is definitely on the last.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 September 2014 07:37:01PM 1 point [-]

Could you give examples of successful interventions that you field has come up with, that wouldn't otherwise have been put into practice?

Comment author: AABoyles 19 September 2014 08:03:13PM 0 points [-]

Nope! Not to say that an intervention proposed by a computational social model has never influenced policy in real life--I just don't know of any examples. That said, I'm workin' on it.