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This is fascinating. It's not quite clear to me however if these are real people who have been anonymized or if they are a unitary statistical representation of the population?

Let's say I was looking for a startup opportunity. What kind of products can I build with this?

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They are not real people, but it is not a "unitary statistical representation" either. At the country level, crossed by the age/sex level, pplapi agents track pretty closely to real humans. Other dimensions (e.g. income) have more noise in them, so they are less reliable.

That explains why a 3 year old in Egypt had an income of $2500 USD or so. I was wondering if it included family income or something else not obvious from a cursory glance.

> Currently, Agent Space contains a simulated entry for each of the ~7 billion humans alive in 2014

Ah, I interpreted "based on" to mean that this might be an extension of that work. What comprised in this extension being a bit ambiguous.

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