[Simulchaord-discuss] Artificial societies discussion on Slashdot

[Paul Fernhout]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/11/0030236&mode=thread&tid=134&threshold=2

Simulating Societies

Posted by michael on Thursday April 11, @08:44AM
from the playing-by-the-rules dept.
blamanj writes "Most of us were exposed fairly early to
Conway's game of Life.
  http://hensel.lifepatterns.net/
A few simple rules produce a
fascinating variety of behavior. Now, it appears 
  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/04/rauch.htm
that similar simulations can predict the behavior of populations and
human societies." 

This cites the Atlantic Monthly article link previously posted.

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I am going to post a comment about this project.

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