'If AI can solve anything with millions of dollars of reasoning, ask it how to cluster standard errors'
daveholtz · x · 2026-09-24
dggoldst jokes that if AI can truly solve any problem with millions of dollars of reasoning compute, it should first answer two perennial econometrics headaches: how to cluster standard errors and how to correct for multiple comparisons. The quip pokes fun at the gap between AI's "solve everything" promises and unresolved practical disputes in statistics.
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