[FRIAM] Article on Epstein

[Robert Holmes]

Epstein has a new book and MIT Tech Review are running an article on
artificial societies on the back of it

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18880/page1/

And again, there's that old chestnut: these models explain, not predict. Do
we still believe this? I agree - they do not predict, but do they even
explain? I'm getting increasingly troubled about this whole notion that the
rules the researcher puts in the agents actually have some sort of analog in
actual people. Even when conclusions are presented as "this is AN
explanation" not "this is THE explanation", I suspect that the ABM
researcher is being somewhat optimistic.

So what is the relationship between the rules in the artificial agents and
the rules in real people?

Robert
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