Re: Game theorists hope to solve world's crises

Posted by Nick Thompson on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Game-theorists-hope-to-solve-world-s-crises-tp4100321p4101188.html

All models are wrong; models are designed to be wrong.  They couldnt possibly do any good if they weren;t wrong. 

 

It's just that some models are wronger than others.

 

n

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,

Clark University ([hidden email])

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: [hidden email]

To: [hidden email]

Sent: 12/2/2009 10:25:02 AM

Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM, glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> wrote:

<snip>
The extent to which some model authors trust their own models is very
frightening.

There *has* to be some joke here around auto-rhetoric asphyxiation...

-- R 

============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org