8. LLMs to Model Agents & Interactions - [E4] Aral, Sinan and Marshall Van Alstyne. 2011.

[lkcao]

Post questions here for this week's exemplary readings:

4. Aral, Sinan and Marshall Van Alstyne. 2011. “The Diversity-Bandwidth Trade-off.” American Journal of Sociology 117(1): 90-171.

[bucketteOfIvy]

Aral and Van Alstyne (2011) present and test a novel theory of information flow in networks that features a tradeoff between diversity in network connections and the bandwidth (intuitively, "strength") of information flow between those connections. While the paper is interesting in it's own right, it feels necessary to think about the implication of this paper for chatbot agent based models; in particular, does this effect naturally arise in chatbot societies, or do we as researchers need to go out of our way to simulate social bonds in chatbot models?

[beilrz]

This is the comment for “No country for old members: User lifecycle and linguistic change in online communities.. I think this is a very interesting paper. I was wondering what are the reason why people left the community, and whether the linguistic disharmony is a cause or result. I think, for future study, one path would to conduct causal test on the linguist disharmony to the fact people leave the community.

[JessicaCaishanghai]

How might the depth of topical knowledge and the refresh rate of knowledge stocks within a network influence the value of bridging structural holes for accessing novel information?