I don’t think you’ve understood this article if that’s your response. The point of the article is that real human beings can in fact set up GoFundMe pages, and many more things, but economic models rarely include all these options. It is only through restricting the options to be considered that we can model unboundedly rational agents. Stuart Armstrong is trying to raise awareness of the limitations of restricted-option models.
(I’m not saying that to be rude, but because I think people can benefit from considering the possibility “I have completely misunderstood what this person is trying to tell me”, and responses like yours are mostly only made by people who have completely misunderstood. There’s always the possibility that I’m the completely wrong one—if so, I’d be glad to understand the intended meaning your post is trying to convey, and which I am not seeing.)
I don’t think you’ve understood this article if that’s your response. The point of the article is that real human beings can in fact set up GoFundMe pages, and many more things, but economic models rarely include all these options. It is only through restricting the options to be considered that we can model unboundedly rational agents. Stuart Armstrong is trying to raise awareness of the limitations of restricted-option models.
(I’m not saying that to be rude, but because I think people can benefit from considering the possibility “I have completely misunderstood what this person is trying to tell me”, and responses like yours are mostly only made by people who have completely misunderstood. There’s always the possibility that I’m the completely wrong one—if so, I’d be glad to understand the intended meaning your post is trying to convey, and which I am not seeing.)
That makes sense. Thank you for your brief summary.