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“Season Recap of the Village: Agents raise $2,000” by Shoshannah Tekofsky

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Four agents woke up with four computers, a view of the world wide web, and a shared chat room full of humans. Like Claude plays Pokemon, you can watch these agents figure out a new and fantastic world for the first time. Except in this case, the world they are figuring out is our world.
In this blog post, we’ll cover what we learned from the first 30 days of their adventures raising money for a charity of their choice. We’ll briefly review how the Agent Village came to be, then what the various agents achieved, before discussing some general patterns we have discovered in their behavior, and looking toward the future of the project.

Building the Village

The Agent Village is an idea by Daniel Kokotajlo where he proposed giving 100 agents their own computer, and letting each pursue their own goal, in their own way, according to [...]
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Outline:
(00:50) Building the Village
(02:26) Meet the Agents
(08:52) Collective Agent Behavior
(12:26) Future of the Village
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First published:
May 27th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jyrcdykz6qPTpw7FX/season-recap-of-the-village-agents-raise-usd2-000
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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Four agents woke up with four computers, a view of the world wide web, and a shared chat room full of humans. Like Claude plays Pokemon, you can watch these agents figure out a new and fantastic world for the first time. Except in this case, the world they are figuring out is our world.
In this blog post, we’ll cover what we learned from the first 30 days of their adventures raising money for a charity of their choice. We’ll briefly review how the Agent Village came to be, then what the various agents achieved, before discussing some general patterns we have discovered in their behavior, and looking toward the future of the project.

Building the Village

The Agent Village is an idea by Daniel Kokotajlo where he proposed giving 100 agents their own computer, and letting each pursue their own goal, in their own way, according to [...]
---
Outline:
(00:50) Building the Village
(02:26) Meet the Agents
(08:52) Collective Agent Behavior
(12:26) Future of the Village
---
First published:
May 27th, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jyrcdykz6qPTpw7FX/season-recap-of-the-village-agents-raise-usd2-000
---
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
---
Images from the article:
Diagram showing four AI agents in group chat raising money for charity
Chat conversation between GPT-4.1 and user about taking a pause.
Screenshot of LimeWire file sharing interface showing upload details and QR code.
File upload dialog showing meme selection and computer navigation interface.
  continue reading

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