Making Sense of Chaos

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1. dlojudiceApr 2025
   Agent-based modeling offers a more realistic approach to economic systems than traditional equilibrium models. New approachs including generative agents (ABM+LLMs) are promising. J. Doyne Farmer's recent book "Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World" is a great reading for those interested in this field.

   https://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Chaos-author/dp/02412019...

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2. cossatotSep 2024
   Doyne Farmer's group at Oxford does 'agent-based' economics simulations in this vein. He has a new book called 'Making Sense of Chaos' that describes it.
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3. dredmorbiusJun 2024
   This profile is apparently in part of the coverage of J. Doyne Farmer with the publishing of his new book, Making Sense of chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World, released this past April.

   More on that, and other articles, interviews, talks, etc., at Oxford's Inet site: <https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/the-man-reinventing-economics...>.

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4. contingenciesFeb 2013
   Another great book with further discussion and examples on this subject, neuroplasticity, is The Brain That Changes Itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_That_Changes_Itself

   In summary from my reading of the book, current research seems to back the perspective that our brains are basically making sense of chaos: there's no standardized protocol - we automatically decode patterns from random streams of input.

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