China Builds Billion-Agent Society Simulator with Terrifying Predictive Power
pbaylies · x · 2026-08-09
Netizens are discussing a Chinese earth-scale simulation system named "Light Society." The framework uses Large Language Models to model billions of AI agents equipped with real personalities, memories, beliefs, and human-like desires.
By combining massive LLMs with highly efficient distilled surrogates, the system breaks through the limitations of simple behaviors in traditional agent-based models, granting it a terrifying ability to predict the future. One commenter joked that this is literally what was called "Psychohistory" in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.
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