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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Social Simulation

In the real world of a pandemic or some future shock event, there's both what the individuals are doing, and then there's the external forces that are pushing them. The government gives them money or doesn't give them money, shuts down air travel. So how much structure do you, as the simulation runner, have to impose on what's happening over time in this kind of a, is it simulation at the right thing to call it? I call them social simulation. Sometimes we call them noture forecasting games, am or immersive scenarios. Its is like one of the cool things about working on the bleeding edge of anusonor wer no, nobody calls it the same thing yet

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