Walker probably feels justified in exaggerating or is simply biased in his investment of accuracy-checking effort) akin to climate scientists - feeling the public won’t update its policy as close to the optimal setting unless they lie.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. I don’t perceive this comment to be defending the algorithm it is ascribing to Walker, just assigning it higher probability.
Walker probably feels justified in exaggerating or is simply biased in his investment of accuracy-checking effort) akin to climate scientists - feeling the public won’t update its policy as close to the optimal setting unless they lie.
That is a strategy whose defects are proverbial.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. I don’t perceive this comment to be defending the algorithm it is ascribing to Walker, just assigning it higher probability.
Maybe the claim that climate scientists are liars? I don’t know if it’s true, but if I knew it were false I’d definitely downvote the post...