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Guess I should have read the entire article. Read first few paragraphs and thought it was talking about real humans. "Leadership Characteristics" and mirrorin
by FrustratedMonky 4y ago
Guess I should have read the entire article. Read first few paragraphs and thought it was talking about real humans. "Leadership Characteristics" and mirroring behaviors and such. Seems like simple computer models would be inaccurate, and this was some new insight on studying real humans.
- coldtea 4y agoWell, if they're going to study real humans, they'll also use computer models for doing that. And simpler than real humans too, kind of like mechanical and engineering models use particle descriptions simpler than real particles, but still work for their purposes... You think some eventually "psychohistory" wont involve computing simulations? At least to spare Seldon all this paper math work...
- FrustratedMonky 4y agoThink I wasn't clear. Psychohistory would all be based on models, because as you say, all science is really about finding models that fit reality. And I think computer models are a part of that. Its just I was mistaken and I thought that this study was more about finding some new insight into human behavior, and the model had helped identify it or understand the human side. And having this new better model would allow psychohistory, and better manipulation. Guess, I thought that the computer model had been used to find some new insight into humans, rather than just finding a better fit to something already known.