Our newest work unifying game theoretic ideas about the evolution of cooperation with the emergence of computation itself.
Self-replicating programs first emerge through random mutation and then spread by cooperating.
@kjha02.bsky.socialCan self-interested, self-improving, self-replicating agents learn to cooperate?
Our new paper, Tapes Together Strong, shows they can: when social behavior, computation, and reproduction share one energy budget, cooperation evolves from scratch.
arxiv.org/abs/2609.10817 🧵
