Well, perhaps this is a good Idea. In fact, Games can easily help teach Economics to policy makers.
Economics at the start is actually quite simple. The more people want something, they more they will pay, the more it costs due to taxes, the less they buy, etc. AIs can easlily manage to do this even if they are only Table Lookups. But, policy makers might have a use for something like this.
Take a basis as something like one of the Corparation Games that is mentioned in the article. Take this, modify it a bit, and you might have a bit of a simulation. Such a simulation could be used to help the people to understand the basis behind thier desisions. Then, the explanations of Tax Cuts and thier math might not be:
"If you have billions of dollars, and spend billions of dollars in Tax Cuts, you still have billions of Dollars."
Perhaps the Canidates for President of the US could use such a game to make thier Budget plans. You just create a current state of the economy in the game, and then demonstrate the effect of the policy by way of a script file that could be given to the people. Then, we could understand thier budget plans.
Then again, policy making does have more to do with Fundraising dinners then Economics(or Lesiure Suite Larry in Clinton's case), so I guess that is out.
*Ahem*, This isn't the first post, as I'm sure you may have noticed. Also, why are you using profantiy? I'm hopeful that the Moderator will catch your feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully.
Most people who buy into this 'problem' of global warming do not realize that it is actually a natural part of the Earth's Weather patterns. If you do a bit of reading, one would find out that the Earth works in cycles. Currently, we are rising to a peak, and then go into an Ice Age according to conjectures on Weather patterns from Historical Accounts, etc. Of course, as all who look at this sort of thing realize, it is all just theories, and we will never really know the truth.
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Well, perhaps this is a good Idea. In fact, Games can easily help teach Economics to policy makers.
Economics at the start is actually quite simple. The more people want something, they more they will pay, the more it costs due to taxes, the less they buy, etc. AIs can easlily manage to do this even if they are only Table Lookups. But, policy makers might have a use for something like this.
Take a basis as something like one of the Corparation Games that is mentioned in the article. Take this, modify it a bit, and you might have a bit of a simulation. Such a simulation could be used to help the people to understand the basis behind thier desisions. Then, the explanations of Tax Cuts and thier math might not be:
"If you have billions of dollars, and spend billions of dollars in Tax Cuts, you still have billions of Dollars."
Perhaps the Canidates for President of the US could use such a game to make thier Budget plans. You just create a current state of the economy in the game, and then demonstrate the effect of the policy by way of a script file that could be given to the people. Then, we could understand thier budget plans.
Then again, policy making does have more to do with Fundraising dinners then Economics(or Lesiure Suite Larry in Clinton's case), so I guess that is out.
*Ahem*, This isn't the first post, as I'm sure you may have noticed. Also, why are you using profantiy? I'm hopeful that the Moderator will catch your feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully.
Most people who buy into this 'problem' of global warming do not realize that it is actually a natural part of the Earth's Weather patterns. If you do a bit of reading, one would find out that the Earth works in cycles. Currently, we are rising to a peak, and then go into an Ice Age according to conjectures on Weather patterns from Historical Accounts, etc. Of course, as all who look at this sort of thing realize, it is all just theories, and we will never really know the truth.