Is somebody thinking to replace members of US congress each with an Ai agent that works for each region? Interesting idea, at least they can't be bribed and they don't seek to become lobbyists. They will also have very good memory and they can find a median of demands from them and they may be able to detect astroturfing. How can you test it out side the frame work of real population though to see how and if it can be subverted?

No, now that I hardly write code, I'm reading and writing more human. We'll need to speak with each other, face-to-face, not through social media or agent intermediaries - if we are to build a better future for all.

Working on an essay for this subject, here is my current reference section

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## References

#### Michael Sandel

- [The Tyranny of Merit - Book](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313112/the-tyranny-of-merit-...)

- [Why 'Merit' Should Be Rejected](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5qsEuUOWo)

- [Democracy in Peril: Paths to Civic Renewal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi8icKc9kKw)

- [Are There Things Money Shouldn't Be Able To Buy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMg9Gjz8PKs)

- [Who Merits to Govern Us?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UhSo5ZNX8)

- [Does the Winner Truly Deserve Their Success?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03i_Ojbx5do)

#### Daron Acemoglu

- [What Happened To Liberal Democracy - Book](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815318/what-happene...)

- [Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence - Paper](https://www.nber.org/papers/w34854)

- [Conversations with Tyler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5O1Y-5phEU)

- [Foreign Affairs Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3iK7j36tI4)

- [Nobel Prize 2024 Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmVL30sS2yU) ([All Laureate Lectures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuxbYUW8R8))

- [Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eVoOlIuis)

#### Friends Together

- [Celebrating Daron's Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKdfNztHq1k)

- [Daron interviews Michael](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpINmi6C3o)

#### Bonus

- [Opus 23 - Ai does to us what American Cheese did to food](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY)

- [The Students - What the Greeks Would Call Our Government](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205IdzGJMJs)

- [Simon Johnson - 2024 Nobel Laureate Lecture in Economics (a good history lesson)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwuEt3DqoI)

- [Michael Young - The Rise of Meritocracy](https://archive.org/details/riseofmeritocrac0000youn)

- [EFF Thoughts on Ai Issues](https://www.eff.org/issues/ai)

Not exactly, but I did start chatting with ChatGPT a couple of days ago, about creating simulations of large scale social organization with NetLogo. It was all pretty speculative / early-stage, as I mostly just wanted to see if the AI could create NetLogo (or something similar) at all. I am intrigued by the idea of creating simulations to try to suss out some possibilities around what a future economy without much (if any??) need for human labor might look like.

Disclaimer: I am not an economist, or a sociologist, etc. So this will be, at most, some random guy playing around with models with some help from an AI. And that's even if I find time to actually put into it.

Ironically moving fastest is China, UAE and Singapore :)