Like I wonder if you have a large grid of “isolated state” models, with maybe a second order and third order set of larger cities and a capital… does it change things somehow if every local element is reacting agentically to data from the global context?
This frame makes a lot of other possible global/local modeling challenges salient for me:
So a thing I’d wonder is if you can translate this over to an economic geography context, where a farmer still needs to walk to the cows to milk them, and the wheat fields to sow and reap, and the forest to chop the wood and haul it home to stay warm… and then prices at the market can or should determine ratios they plant and how that fits into their optimized workday?
Like I wonder if you have a large grid of “isolated state” models, with maybe a second order and third order set of larger cities and a capital… does it change things somehow if every local element is reacting agentically to data from the global context?