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ai-economist

Foundation is a flexible, modular, and composable framework to model socio-economic behaviors and dynamics with both agents and governments. This framework can be used in conjunction with reinforcement learning to learn optimal economic policies, as done by the AI Economist (https://www.einstein.ai/the-ai-economist).

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What it is

Foundation is a flexible, modular, and composable framework to model socio-economic behaviors and dynamics with both agents and governments. This framework can be used in conjunction with reinforcement learning to learn optimal economic policies, as done by the AI Economist (https://www.einstein.ai/the-ai-economist).

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-08-09 20:40:10 UTC to 2020-10-07 13:51:25 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsAug 32020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 312020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsOct 5

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 32020-08-03 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 102020-08-10 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 172020-08-17 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 242020-08-24 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 312020-08-31 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 72020-09-07 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 142020-09-14 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 212020-09-21 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 282020-09-28 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 52020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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The article seems link free but the below seem to be related to the project. https://blog.einstein.ai/the-ai-economist/ https://einstein.ai/the-ai-economist https://github.com/salesforce/ai-economist [edit: Sarcasm removed. I think the project is exciting. I don't think the stated value of data/ML being fairer than politics is very strong because (a.) politics is reflective of culture and represents a sophisticated method of developing consensus among many different ideas of what fair means, (b.) tax accounting work will just shift to GAN and the end result won't be much different just more complex.] GAN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
In An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy

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