Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2023, 6(11); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061106.
Yankun Yi
College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
The emergence of generative agents heralds the metaverse's potential to evolve into a new type of mimetic society, and the new world beyond the real dimension — the meta-society — is getting closer to humanity. The classical social statistical thought of statisticians led by Quetelet and Durkheim has been long recognized and used. But what kind of tests they will face in this new society is worth our consideration. Based on generative agents, this article depicts the possible social forms of future metaverse development, studies the practicality and challenge of applying classic social statistical thought in different future societies by imitating the classic statistical approach in "Le Suicide", and summarizes the affinity between collective types and mirrored meta-societies and the affinity between the average man and customized meta-societies, the latter of which has commercial potential.
Social statistics; Meta-society; Collective types; Average man
Yankun Yi. The Evolution of the Metaverse and the Futuristic Presentation of Classic Social Statistics Thought. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 11: 36-43. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2023.061106.
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