[FRIAM] A billion agents

[Raymond Parks]

Russell Standish suggested that one could specify large quantities of 
similiar but not exactly the same agents:

> By setting their behaviour parameters from a probability distribution.

   But isn't this self-fulfilling?  If you collect data about behaviours 
to populate your probability distribution you will be programming your 
agents to act the way you collected your data.  If, by chance or design, 
your data collection is biased, your agents will be biased.

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