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The nuance that kept me from spinning out in writing the book was the assumption that politics is weird, and not the same as the economy.

But that's always been the case. Nixon started to use the term in 1969 just as his campaign was working with top advisor to build more interactive systems to measure and predict th…

Its got sublimes for cheap.

I mean it's debatable that it's an optimization problem but it's been tried. One thread in the book is the reaction the Limits of Growth. That model extrapolated trends, very abstr…

There is such an enduring link between democracy, elections and math. What I interesting was the focus on trying to model politics correctly rather than "better" with computers. I …

People sure tried. But really the book traces how that happened. I think it became easier to imagine politics working like a computer than with people, like how computer reasoning …

Thanks for correcting!

I was tempted with Show HN, but it also seems more like demos, and this is more a link to an open access book so I thought it was more reading material.

Yeah, it's my book and happy to answer any questions too. Internet Daemons is open access too: https://www.internetdaemons.com/ I'm Fenwick dot McKelvey at Concordia dot ca if you …

Thank you! Hope you find it interesting!

Thanks! I should have put that in the post in the first place

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6166/SimPoliticsAm...

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