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by arkades 2240 days ago
Criticism: Academia fails to model the real world, in contrast to industry ("is way behind industry").

Response: An entire industry of competing and well-funded actors that specialize in modeling and predicting expensive failure states also failed to model the world accurately.

Implication of Response: Where is the evidence that this is inferior to industry?

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>>Implication of Response: Where is the evidence that this is inferior to industry?

A meta implication is that expert models were insufficient to inform decisions.