Modeling stupidity:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/29/james-lovelock-climate-change *"I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change," said Lovelock in his first in-depth interview since the theft of the UEA emails last November. "The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful."* Seriously. Consider a large-scale (100's of millions) individual-based decision modeling ABM where you could twiddle the "intelligence" nob for defined demographic segments of the population. Politicians would love to have such an analysis tool. Of course you'd have to find somebody smart to run it for them... --Doug
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