[HN Gopher] A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Bet...
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A Framework for Characterizing Emergent Conflict Between Non-
Coordinating Agents [pdf]
Author : ycombiredd
Score : 20 points
Date : 2025-06-14 11:36 UTC (2 days ago)
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| ycombiredd wrote:
| or "Unaware Adversaries" for short. I am not an academic, and it
| may show in this paper, but I am an IT-veteran (systems/network
| engineer, Enterprise Architect) with a restless mind. This
| started as a humor piece based on an anecdote from when I was in
| the 4th grade of elementary school in a classroom in an outside
| temporary building that had both a window-unit and a floor-
| mounted radiator. I began writing up this anecdote in a faux-
| academic tone, and ended up with this. Perhaps someone will read
| it.
| troelsSteegin wrote:
| I enjoyed a fast read of this and will re-read it. Following from
| the idea of making system-scoped information available to
| individual agents, I think a general model needs to include some
| sense of information processing capacity of agents - like an
| attention or analysis budget. That includes ability to recognize
| higher order signal as first order relevant. Information
| asymmetries are not so much about information but interpretation.
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