Amazing Markus, I did not know your hub yet. Happy to hear about it. You may find this "idea" interesting too
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layout opportunities to engage with and reimagine political, economic and social systems by means of simulating them.

I hope it is interesting and even useful to some.

I am not the first to address the simulation of Utopias, but I am the first to scope the literature, connect the dots across fields as diverse as the sociology of Utopia, economics, complexity science, artificial intelligence and so forth and

Interestingly enough there is even a paper on this that finds AI biases the review process towards more positive outcomes. arxiv.org/abs/2405.02150 Perhaps. But I think the final outcome is yet to see and regardless of the sign of the outcome, the quality possibly decreases.

I think using AI to refine reviews as any other text is fine, as long as it remains a high quality honest review, but in my case it went so far that the "reviews" clearly just rephrased limitations from my own text and any AI detector would immediately detect it. I felt cheated.

Discussion welcome!

And lastly I speculate about the future and general ability of computational research to aid in such democratisation and scientific efforts. What are its limits? Ethical propblems?

Further I generally systematize and map simulation approaches to their characteristic domains of validity and specific application areas in studying radical democratisation proposal

More concretely I conceptualise one specific possible model architecture to study an alternative political economy in which citizen-assembly-like deliberation plays a central role in societal decision-making

Specifically, I map exisiting simulation methods to existing challenges in niche democratisation efforts such as citizen assemblies and democratic firms to generate a better understanding of how computational simulation may aid social, political and economic innovation.

Hope you enjoy!✍️

🌳It is a research perspective piece intending to conceive the potential for applying computational simulation methods and artificial intelligence to investigate new and alternative democratic paradigms of political economy.

But evidence shows different already.

Here is a study showing that LLM generated ideas are judged as more novel than researcher generated ideas in NLP.

arxiv.org/abs/2409.04109