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Hybrid Multi-Agent Congressional Simulator
- D_ashe 8mo agoI built an end-to-end simulation of Congress. I’ll share more detail soon, but here’s what surprised me. In the first version, the agents were simple: voting records, public statements, committee assignments, donor data, and constituent polling. Then I let them vote. Bills that have stalled for decades sailed through. Getting money out of elections passed with 95% approval. Banning insider trading for members of Congress hit 98%. Ending continuing resolutions cleared 95%. Turns out, if you model lawmakers as mostly rational actors responding to inputs, they behave… rationally. To make it realistic, I had to add self-preservation, incentives, and a strong sense of “the other side.” Now those same bills die in committee. As expected.