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...
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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.
A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI
People increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to explore ideas, gather information, and make sense of the world. In these interactions, they encounter agents that are overly agreeable. We...
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 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
LLMs and World Models, Part 1
How do Large Language Models Make Sense of Their “Worlds”?
Democracy has Hamlet’s Problem: The Search for Relevance in a Complex World
To cope with the complexity of the world, cognitively limited agents must employ framing to identify what is relevant and stabilise meaning. Yet democracy rests on the Popperian fallibilist imperat...
