# Moore Is Different: “Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior”

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/moore-is-different-generative-agents-interactive-simulacra-of-human-behavior/3039>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** autonomous-agent, chatgpt, roaring-twenties, non-player-character, artificial-intelligence\
**Created:** [13 April 2023 14:52 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/moore-is-different-generative-agents-interactive-simulacra-of-human-behavior/3039 "2023-04-13T14:52:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![magus](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@magus](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/magus)\
**Post date:** [16 April 2023 15:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/moore-is-different-generative-agents-interactive-simulacra-of-human-behavior/3039/2 "2023-04-16T15:34:24Z")

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This is amazing research. The authors say they were inspired by _[The Sims](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims)_, but the simulation they created is arguably more advanced than that game despite having a simpler architecture. It would be interesting to compare the results of social and economic experiments involving generative agents with those of humans. In addition, I wonder what would happen if we were to scale up the simulation to hundreds of thousands or millions of generative agents. Can a large-scale simulation accurately model the social dynamics of human civilizations? That would be a very powerful tool indeed. The [political bias](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/some-experiments-with-chatgpt/2383/38) built into ChatGPT would probably hamper such a simulation, but less-biased AI could (presumably) be substituted into the same architecture.

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