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An independent publication · By Jonas Kgomo

Simulacra

Notes on Agent Civilisations and Machine Ecologies

A trilogy on Games, Ecology & GenusA research prospectus

Abstract

When our agents meet.

An assistant books a delivery. Another filters your inbox. A third negotiates a price. What happens when the software acting for us starts dealing with everyone else’s software?

Simulacra explores that shared world through small stories and proposed experiments. Games asks which rules make cooperation possible. Ecology follows what happens when agents compete, copy, and depend on one another. Genus examines how their capabilities change and what survives when one agent replaces another. Together, the notes ask who gets heard, who owns what, and who can change the rules. You can start with an everyday situation and follow it into a larger question about governance.

These are experiments to explore, with questions still open. No technical background is needed to begin.

Games 0 — Specification · Start here

Games Agents Play

Two settlements, a few delivery agents, and a reward that might teach the wrong lesson.

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From the notebook

Field note — 2024 → 2026

From action to populations

Looking back at the shift from models becoming actors to actors becoming populations.

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Ecology I — Access

When the Senders Are Machines

An inbox, fifty messages of attention, and a growing population of machine senders.

Read the note 2 min

This collection sets out proposed experiments and the questions behind them. It does not report simulation results.

Three series. One synthetic world.

World, population, lineage.

Different questions of the same experiment. Follow a series, or enter through a single idea.

The question behind Simulacra

What happens when agents become numerous?

Most discussion of AI agents focuses on the individual system. Simulacra studies the population: what happens when agents compete for attention, negotiate access, form reputations, and become part of one another’s environment.

The proposed studies begin with familiar settings: an inbox, a shared service, a trading town. Each makes a larger question about artificial populations small enough to investigate.

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