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  1. …in reply to @LandoniMattia
    @LandoniMattia Thanks for your input I agree people needs to get convinced by the output of ABMs But I just don’t understand why we put so much emphasis on optimal behaviors
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    1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
      @LandoniMattia I’m not saying optimality is not important nor uninteresting to study My point is rather to say "are we so sure that sticking to optimality is the best way to build meaningful scientific results?" To me it seems more of a aesthetic stance than a purely scientific one
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      1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
        @LandoniMattia It is especially relevant for areas or phenomenons where we know the current models are far from perfect to properly explain what’s going on
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        1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
          @LandoniMattia There is also an egg/chicken dilemma here: despite the number of people working on them and the increasingly vast literature, we don’t put a lot of ressources on agent-based models to build the methodology So we don’t really know its strengths and limits
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          1. …in reply to @simardcasanova
            @LandoniMattia I 100% agree with your explanation that (if I get it correctly) ABMs are slightly different that regular models But I’m wondering why, as a field, we were able to built such beliefs and we can’t see why they eliminate methods that could help better understand things
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