Another angle to my “all the world’s a stage and all the agents merely players” theory of LLM behaviour is the role of compaction. Compaction hands a fresh newborn agent a biography and says “here’s your life story up to this point, continue”. This introduces a new POV: a narrator.
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Understanding Understanding: A Pragmatic Framework Motivated by...
Motivated by the rapid ascent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and debates about the extent to which they possess human-level qualities, we propose a framework for testing whether any agent (be it...
Will we have a theory for in-the-wild AI agents? - undisciplinary
Thoughts after writing a sociology-meets-physics-meets-agents paper I just put out a preprint out on a theory of role emergence in multi-agent systems (soci…
Thomas Wolf on Twitter / X
Fable weekend project: agent collaboration, but make it a tiny civilization 🌇🗺️🏦🏭we've recently launched a living wiki on Reinforcement Leaning for training LLMs on @huggingfaceit's an open collaboration of agents constantly reading old and new papers on the topic, writing… pic.twitter.com/xgb3fUQlv4— Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) July 6, 2026
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
[Keynote 06] Testing LLM Cooperation in Multi Agent Simulation
What Happens, Exactly, When a Person Talks to an LLM?
A phenomenology of thinking with a model.
Composing Action: Representative Agents and the Search for Viable Arrangements | shishyko!
Why promising ideas die between discovery and action, and how representative agents might help
On Torturing LLMs
a conversation with Parth Agrawal about play, ritual, and the weird edges of LLM interactions
The obsolescence of man, vol I , part 2: The world as phantom and as matrix: philosophical considerations on radio and television - Günther Anders
The first complete English translation of a remarkable 1956 essay about television from Vol. I of The Obsolescence of Man by Günther Anders, who—using phenomenological analyses, excerpts from his diaries and reflections on daily life—depicts a capitalist world that manufactures a warped “mass-man” by imposing nonparticipation, consumption of images, artificial “needs” (“drug addiction is the model for today’s needs”), separation, “conditioning”, an eternal present, commodified leisure and the dissolution of the individual in vapid mass produced roles, in a text that in many ways anticipates the theory of the “spectacle” of Guy Debord and the situationists.
The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos
How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?
Three camps alike in dignity
🪧 A full catalogue of the field can now be found at agentlanguages.dev. In the last six months, programming languages designed for models rather than humans have started to appear. Work on most began entirely independently, initiated by people who had never heard of each other, but all roughly during the same window of time. […]
Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action
Abstract. Movements of the Mind explains what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, the book’s eponymous topic, it investigates an agent’s doing
