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Re:Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of... by p1necone on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:23PM (#26269663)
Of course people changed their behavior because of Covid models, that's the fucking point. The modelling wasn't wrong it was just predicting what would happen if people didn't follow any precautions, in order to work what precautions were necessary.
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Re:Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of... by zwaps on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:27PM (#26270159)
The models are incomplete.

This is the same reason as to why Econophysics, despite all its promise and grandeur, has yet to yield any useful results.

Interdependent human beings are a lot more complex entities than particles or flows.

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Re:Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of... by richardw on Thursday February 25, 2021 @10:43PM (#26271155)
Our emergent behaviour comes from emergent behaviour of particles, because we are them. It’s just harder to predict a few levels of emergence up.
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