Contents

Society
in silico

17 chapters · 5 parts · 60,066 words · a draft in public

Preface 6 min Introduction: The model and the world 11 min

Part I · The closed stack

01 The birth of microsimulation 14 min 02 The tax model wars 20 min 03 The accuracy question 16 min 04 A wall of frustration 15 min

Part II · The open engine

05 Proof of concept 17 min 06 The household and the society 24 min 07 The three ingredients 19 min

Part III · The agent turn

08 The AI can't do your taxes 15 min 09 Encoding the law 19 min 10 The verification problem 16 min 11 Microsimulation anywhere 16 min 12 The decomposition 17 min

Part IV · The prediction pole

13 The uncertainty gap, and the scoreboard 19 min 14 Simulating opinion 16 min

Part V · The horizon

15 Simulating democracy 14 min 16 Simulating values 19 min 17 Society in silico 18 min

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