And you seem to have a tendency to dramatize things. "Sadly" ... "anthropomorphizing"... My take on it: Let's approach things with a playful attitude and relax a little in life. Matthew 18:2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Alright holy man, so it shall be. In fact, I would like nothing more than to be able to simply chill out and have fun like a kid again. Have a good weekend!
No need to turn ET into kindergarten “Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause.” ~A Course In Miracles”~
I use to have the Morgan Kaufmann Series book "Swarm Intelligence" but I can't say I figured out how to relate anything in that book to trading. Agent based models are obviously interesting but then again, the issue is how to relate this to trading. It is hard enough to model one trader (yourself) let alone millions. I suspect much of anything you find code wise about this too will be in NetLogo. NetLogo really had a foothold in the early days of Complex Systems because Northwestern was an early university in taking the subject seriously and NetLogo was made at Northwestern. Studying swarm intelligence specifically without studying Complex Systems generally doesn't really make sense either. It would be like studying the window length of a moving average without knowing what a moving average is.
Well, SI is all about decentralized and self-organized systems (aka autonomous) working collectively, much like Blockchain technology. Not surprisingly, SI was inspired by swarm behaviors of ant colony. Hence, imagine a large botnet of autonomous SI machines effectively colluding with one another (supposedly under the radar of SEC and other regulators). Do you not see the potential in this?