this dude has never heard of a social experiment

Someone should ask this guy how much it costs to make a coat.

Stafford Beer also arrived at this conclusion (accidentally too). Then actually put it in practice in Chile before the coup

Also Anwar Sheikh conclusively exploded one of the main theoretical underpinnings of marginalism all the way back in 1974

Causal casual model

Holy shit:

Liam Kofi Bright is a British philosopher of science who is an assistant professor or lecturer in the department of philosophy, logic, and scientific method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works primarily on formal social epistemology, particularly the social epistemology of science

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING THEN

Thus the intense drive by neo-liberal economists to mathematize their "science." It's physics envy. A bunch of dorks made massive assumptions about human behavior and motivations because that made it a lot easier to model with mathematics, then spent the next century jacking themselves off until they were left with nothing but a bloody stump.

Too bad their assumptions WERE WRONG and they should be laughed at for being such dorks :farquaad-point:

Except that mathematics mostly isn't a "casual model generating precise predictions", especially at the higher levels, famously so with the philosophical failures of Bertrand Russell.

Basically :gun-hubris:

Just your average STEM douchebag

This isn't even positivism, this is baby's first falsificationism. I would respect a positivist critique since they at least acknowledge induction exists.