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Artificial Societies
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Artificial Societies
@societies_io
F500s test marketing & comms decisions in Artificial Societies before launch. Backed by YC, Point72, Kindred + angels from Sequoia, Prolific, DeepMind, etc.
London Katılım Şubat 2025
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these are outrageously ambitious ideas and I hope they all work
recursive businesses, simulating societies, autonomous research ..
there is always alpha in being very technical + weirdly curious but never more so than right now
@ammaar @karpathy @Bencera @societiesio
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getting cash, making moves
James He@james_k_he
Artificial Societies has raised $5.3m. We are building the Thinking Machine that can see all potential societal outcomes of any given actions, and help humanity find the golden paths. Yes, we are here to build Psychohistory. And we are just getting started.
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Artificial Societies has raised $5.3m.
We are building the Thinking Machine that can see all potential societal outcomes of any given actions, and help humanity find the golden paths.
Yes, we are here to build Psychohistory. And we are just getting started.
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Artificial Societies retweetledi
Most content fails because it’s late.
Our first blog shares peer-reviewed research on how freshness + relevance drive virality — and how @societiesio can simulate impact before you post.
♾️ How to go viral in a dead internet – fluxsearch.io/resources/how-…
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@shek_dev We think it's pretty cool too! Watch this space 👀
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This is gotta be the coolest use case of AI. @societiesio simulates your target audience to see how they are going to react to your product/marketing/pitch.
Token Launches are never going to be same again.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
Artificial Societies (@societiesio) uses AI to simulate entire human societies. They've just released Reach, a tool that simulates your LinkedIn audience, where you can test posts before you publish. ycombinator.com/launches/Mv0-a… Congrats on the launch, @james_k_he + @sharpetrick!
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Been vibe coding an admin dashboard and it’s so much fun as long (as you don’t look at the code)
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🤝🫶🏻
Taro Fukuyama@taro_f
Excited to share my latest investment: Artificial Societies (@societiesio) in YC W25! Here's why this one's different - their product Reach has completely transformed how I approach LinkedIn content. Think of it as a simulation of your personal LinkedIn audience that runs 24/7, predicting exactly how your audience will react to your posts before you publish. I've been using it myself, and the accuracy is mind-blowing. What used to be guesswork is now backed by data-driven insights that consistently boost engagement. But what really sold me was the founding team's ambitious vision. James and Patrick aren't just building a content tool - they're creating technology to simulate entire human societies. As behavioral scientists, they've cracked the code on combining AI with human psychology in ways I've never seen before. Want to see the future of social content? Give Reach a try. You'll understand why I'm betting big on this team. Check out their product! Congrats @james_k_he & @sharpetrick! PS: Of course I used Artificial Societies for this post 😆
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@zmbnski @ycombinator And yes you can get investment after one convo, not usually $1m though. You can even get 100k - 200k cheques without a convo, just an email! 🤯
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The @ycombinator investing in a similar startup would suggest that the answer to the question is “yes”.
But again, in the @societiesio’s presentation it is not explained how they simulate a person in the network.
They explain they can run 1000s of simulations with different version of the post. But no mention of the method they use to simulate 1000s of personality traits a person can have.
It seems that the reasoning behind investing in this type of startups is that even if they can increase your chances of going viral by some percent, it is still a valuable product.
Y Combinator@ycombinator
Artificial Societies (@societiesio) uses AI to simulate entire human societies. They've just released Reach, a tool that simulates your LinkedIn audience, where you can test posts before you publish. ycombinator.com/launches/Mv0-a… Congrats on the launch, @james_k_he + @sharpetrick!
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Is this how VCs work in the US?
Genuine question - I don’t know the process - but you hear stories about people getting $1M after just one conversation.
The guy had a great idea: testing tweets for virality before posting. Claims he can simulate it.
He made a killer viral video and wrote an extremely good tweet about it.
Made $30k in 24 hours.
There’s clearly a market, and people are willing to pay.
But… the product doesn’t actually work?
It’s highly unlikely the algorithm functions as claimed. The problem is similar to simulating the stock market - you’d also need to predict if agents will “like” a given stock. Social simulation is extremely complex.
There’s just too many variables to simulate it correctly.
So, unless it’s some novel, genius algorithm, it can only estimate virality to a degree - and will likely be wrong often.
That said, the idea is super interesting, and the founder really wants to make it work. The demand is there.
Will VCs invest? Or is this just @eddybuild hyping it up?
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@zmbnski @ycombinator In our case we use public LinkedIn data from your actual connections and interactions to model social interaction. A long way to go but it’s currently ~2x as accurate as leading LLM models.
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