Growing artificial societies
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Years ago I read "Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom Up" by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell and was really motivated to do computer modeling as some sort of hobby. For me at least the problem was once I got their…
on “Computer Modeling Should Become a Popular Hobby” ↗…book (http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Wealth-Evolution-Complexity-Eco...), was a great introduction to "complexity economics". However, if you are more interested in the actual work, head to amazon and buy Growing Artificial Societies (http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Artificial-Societies-Science-A...) or head to Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=8sXENe8QrmYC&dq=growing...).
on “Path Dependence of Startups” ↗I found Epstein's book on Sugarscape, "Growing artificial societies: social science from the bottom up", to be fascinating. I'm not much of a programmer but I've tinkered around with various basic implementations of his simulations a fair bit. It's sorta unfortunate…
on “Seeing Around Corners (2002)” ↗Growing Artificial Societies is an interesting book that extrapolates on this.
on “Conway's Game of Life digital clock” ↗…perfectly informed individual with infinite computing capacity who maximizes a fixed (non-evolving) exogenous utility function"[1] bears little relation to a human being.[2] -- [1] Aaron, 1994 [2] Growing Artificial Societies -- Joshua M. Epstein & Robert L. Axtell
on “Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents” ↗This is slightly off-topic but I've recently read the book "Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up" and in my spare time I've been slowly implementing something very similar to the sort of "Maximally-Minimalist" simulation they describe. This simulation includes…
on “Economics Simulation” ↗You're right, there is this other side to the coin. I'm also not aware of research studying these high order effects. I wonder if you could apply the approach from the book Growing Artificial Societies, which is basically generative modeling of social organization, but I don't think that approach has a lot of academic support.
on “Oslo made its city center basically car-free” ↗