Goodhart's Law and a Minimum Viable Sugarscape: Karpathy Pattern ABM Autoresearch
Intro Agent based models (ABMs) are notorious for being over-parameterized. Researchers can get caught in loops effectively doing manual p-hacking adding more and more rules and variables to their funny world of little guys in a grid. My problem is that ABMs can be far too complex, to truly understand...
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