Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Many top-down regulatory solutions to this dilemma have been studied in game theory and mechanism design. But is cooperation possible without a mechanism designer? 100
Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Over the past 40 years, this question has received extensive empirical attention, culminating in the 2009 Nobel Prize to Elinor Ostrom for characterizing the many mechanisms people and communities use to cooperate sustainably from the bottom up. 110
Max Kleiman-Weiner @maxkw.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Because many of these mechanisms depend on open-ended communication, negotiation, and enforcement they have not been easy to realistically model analytically. LLM agents allow us to tackle this challenge. 100
