Joon envisions simulation tackling society's hardest problems — climate change, democracy stability, collective action — by modeling how different stakeholders with conflicting incentives interact and reach equilibrium. ✦ AI generated
Joon Sung Park · 20VC · 2026-08-01 · original ↗
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“How do you think about who you can and should work with versus who you shouldn't?”
I also get quite excited by the vision where simulation I do think can also be a cure for many of what we call 'wicked problems.' A good example here might be things like climate change requires collective action across many stakeholders who have different incentives. One of the reasons why such problems are so difficult is actually finding the right equilibrium state where all different parties come together to make decision for global good is very difficult. Can we actually simulate those decision-making processes? Can we actually simulate even in things like in what conditions does a democracy fail? Can we actually predict that? These are the kind of questions that simulation ultimately can answer.
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13:37part of me. I also get quite excited by the vision where simulation I do think can also be a cure for many of what we call {quote} "unquote" wicked problems. A good example here might be things like climate change requires collective action across many stakeholders who have different incentives. One of the reasons why such are so difficult is actually finding the right equilibrium state where all all different parties come together to
14:04make decision for global good is very difficult. Can we actually simulate those decision-making processes? Can we actually simulate even in things like in what conditions does a democracy fail? Can we actually predict that? These are the kind of questions that simulation ultimately can answer. >> Can I ask you thing about like democracies failing and elections for a government has been an incredibly useful tool. How do you think about
14:31who you can and should work with versus who you shouldn't? Yeah. >> This is for us where the principles matters so much. The way I see it, simulation as a piece of technology is one of the twin pillars of technology. I'm a fan of science fiction. You read any advanced science fictions, there's always two pillars. One is some form of AGI that always shows up. The other is simulation. And