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Re:Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch by Aeolun on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:41AM (#37532797)
At sufficiently large scale we should be able to model certain personalities though.
Re:Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch by HDThoreaun on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:04PM (#37536550)
Imo a decent economics simulator is indistinguishable from a full physics simulator. There’s no other way to account for the actions of millions of independent actors with unique incentives. Econ models tend to focus on very specific independent variables and hold everything else constant because there are just too many dimensions to consider in a full model