{"id":899,"date":"2001-11-03T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2001-11-04T01:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=899"},"modified":"2001-11-03T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2001-11-04T01:51:21","slug":"sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/03\/sims.html","title":{"rendered":"Sims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-110201simosama.story\">The Sims vs. Al Quaeda<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>An interesting <i>LA Times <\/i>article about the effort to create computer simulations of everything from small unit battlefield tactics to large societies. Where&#8217;s Hari Seldon when you need him?<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.blogspot.com\/2001_10_28_instapundit_archive.html#6826419\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sims vs. Al Quaeda An interesting LA Times article about the effort to create computer simulations of everything from small unit battlefield tactics to large societies. Where&#8217;s Hari Seldon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1901,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/paging_hari_sel.html","url_meta":{"origin":899,"position":0},"title":"Paging Hari Seldon &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Apr-02 4:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"By using computers to create artificial societies and business, sociologists are coming models that do some startlingly realistic things -- even though it's not always obvious why they do ahead...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; Nature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4724,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/improvisation.html","url_meta":{"origin":899,"position":1},"title":"Improvisation","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-04 7:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article here in the NY Times, to the effect that American foreign policy is almost always improvisational -- and, through that flexibility, often successful. 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