 Critics of Weisberg and Muldoon’s model argue that it is flawed by simple implementation errors in which &gt;= was used in place of &gt;, with the result that their software agents do not in fact operate in accord with their outlined strategies (Alexander, Himmelreich,&amp; Thomson 2015). As implemented, their followers tend to get trapped into oscillating between two equivalent spaces (often of value 0). According to the critics, when followers are properly implemented, it turns out that mavericks help the success of a community solely in terms of discovery by the mavericks themselves, not by getting followers “unstuck” who shouldn’t have been stuck in the first place (see also Thoma 2015). If the critics are right, the Weisberg-Muldoon model as originally implemented proves inadequate as philosophical support for the claim that division of labor and strategic diversity are important epistemic drivers. There’s  an interactive simulation of the Weisberg and Muldoon model, which includes a switch to change the &gt;= to &gt;,  in the Other Internet Resources section below.