Title :
Testing Carlo Cipolla´s Laws of Human Stupidity with Agent-Based Modeling
Author :
Tettamanzi, Andrea G. B. ; da Costa Pereira, Celia
Author_Institution :
I3S, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis, France
Abstract :
We set up an agent-based simulation to test Carlo M. Cipolla´s theory of human stupidity. In particular, we investigate under which hypotheses his theory is compatible with a well-corroborated theory like natural evolution, which we build into the model. We discover that there exist parameter settings which determine the emergence of stylized facts in line with Cipolla´s theory. The assumptions corresponding to those parameter settings are intuitive and justified by common sense.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences computing; digital simulation; multi-agent systems; Carlo M. Cipolla´s theory; agent-based modeling; agent-based simulation; human stupidity laws; natural evolution; stylized facts; Bioinformatics; Computational modeling; Evolutionary computation; Genomics; Sociology; Standards; Statistics; Agent-Based Simulation; Economics; Evolutionary Algorithms; Stupidity;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Warsaw
DOI :
10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.174