[umgud]

Will they input politically correct data?

[TruthConquers]

I find the arrogance of scientists amazing.

Complex societies are ... complex.

Besides, they tend to be full of political correctness, (Civilization game anyone), and they WILL get it wrong. And don’t forget the climate models. They don’t have those right, either, do they.

[ILS21R]

[BwanaNdege]

G.I.G.O.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

[Oceander]

Yeah, that worked really well for the risk-management divisions at the banks, didn't it?

[dirtymac]

And it will prove globull warming is true, that communism is the best economic model, and that the elite must rule the world. It's just common sense and this super computer will prove it. And, oh, by the way, it will produce a valid birth certificate for Obuma proving natural born citizenship.

[LiberConservative]

GIGO

[tbw2]

If the climate models were so wrong, what is to prevent the economic models from being even more so?

[Madame Dufarge]

Actual humans found behaving contrary to forecast "scientific" outcomes will, of course, be eliminated.

For the greater good.

[LibLieSlayer]

Sim City 2010.

[StormEye]

I wonder if they will attempt to model such complex societies as Zimbabwe, Castro’s Cuba, Chad, Afghanistan or even Detroit, Michigan? Nah, that wouldn’t be politically correct!

[dangus]

42.

[mountainlion]

Maybe they will prove that computers caused global warming.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Supercomputers are already being used to explore complex social and economic problems that science can understand in no other way.

Yes, there is their resound success modeling "global warming" to point to. If "scientists" do not "understand" the social and economic problems who is going to write the simulation code? Garbage in equals garbage out!

Regards,
GtG

[TASMANIANRED]

Garbage in....liberal policies out.

[bmwcyle]

The hockey stick program of economics so socialism always works?

[catnipman]

If anyone could actually get any sort of real-world economic model to work at all, they’d keep the results secret and become filthy rich. (At least, that’s what I would do!)

In point of fact, any working model of the economy would result in significant behavioral changes by investors trying to take advantage of the results in order to improve their own results. This in turn subsequently renders the model incorrect. This is a classic example of the “observer effect”, in which the act of observing something (a functioning model that mirrors reality, for example) alters that which is observed. (On a lighter note, it would be great fun to gain enough credibility that one could knowingly fake model results and be prepared in advance to take advantage of the expected resulting behavioral changes in order to become filthy rich. Oops, there I go again, trying to get filthy rich from a model.)

[Kevmo]

I’d love to see these simulations incorporate bible prophecies into the mix.