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Title is: SimPolitics - America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers
Thank you for this, I'm going to give it a read.

I am unfortunately very bearish on politics in general. All politicians think short term, look after themselves, their families, their friends, and their interests first; Facts, and working simulations just get in the way. (I am still looking for a politician that is an exception to this rule) Human nature is unfortunately real, and the only way I can see to "solve politics" is to remove human's entirely, but that comes with a whole new set of issues and is another book I guess.

I think it's less that politicians think short term, and more that voters think short term. Politicians are just responding to the incentives created by willfully ignorant voters.
Can anyone tell me if it acknowledges the dialectic?
I didn't read the book but the problem in politics is always the silent majority.

On the internet, the 5% of haters and the 5% of the biggest fans mostly comment. 90% of the people don't, the silent majority.

How are you gonna model what those who don't give an opinion say?

Polls? Remember the USA 2016 election where Trump won?

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 the elections per riding. A bit theme of the book is how to appreciate the gap between a simulation and reality, something old and new.
Looking forward to "modeling the economy with AI agents".
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.