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I think you're coming at the paper from a very particular angle. This is fundamentally a mathematical simulation, so it's bound to be simplified. Assuming fixe
by uniqueuid 5y ago
I think you're coming at the paper from a very particular angle.
This is fundamentally a mathematical simulation, so it's bound to be simplified. Assuming fixed identities is not completely unreasonable, given that affective and ideological polarization in the US has been increasing over decades. Yes some people switch, but not as many as you may think.
- chinchilla2020 5y agoComplex human thought processes cannot be modeled by a simplified mathematical model
- uniqueuid 5y agoRight. But simple human behavior can often be modeled by a simplified mathematical model :) My two favorite quotes on the subject are of course George Box: > all models are wrong, but some are useful And Avery Pennarun: > almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand, because mostly the ML is trained by feeding it examples of what humans did while following a very dumb heuristic.