Doesn&#x27;t (over-applied) machine learning just lead towards a variation of exactly the same problem?<p>Instead of &quot;this model fits the curve and sounds attractive and sciencey&quot; it becomes &quot;this model fits the curve and was done by computer!&quot;<p>Not really the &quot;empiricism coming to economics&quot; that the author claims, but I guess it could support better outcomes.  For a while.