Random Graphs and Modeling Human Behavior

keywords: AI, Reasoning, Human Behavior

Some references to get a discussion going:

Mark Newman
Networks 2nd Edition
Oxford University Press (2018)

Stefan Thurner, Rudolf Hanel and Peter Klimek
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems
Oxford University Press (December 4, 2018)

Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory
https://www.dan.sperber.fr/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/MercierSperberWhydohumansreason.pdf

Vitorio Loreto, Vito D. P. Servedio, Steven H. Strogatz, Francesca Tria
Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00994

A. Pluchino. A. E. Biondo, A. Rapisarda
Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068

• Graphs as models
• Constructing random graphs
• Emergent behavior
• Comparing graph structures with real-world phenomena

Facebook as Signal to Noise attenuator

• increase noise in large graph
• emergent behavior / manipulate noise to create false signals