Agents

The hierarchies we need for agents are more likely to come from organizational forms (a highly refined technology for working across multiple actors with many responsibilities & ability levels) than from coding practice. Already some hints this might work well in early papers. https://t.co/sLf4UkMyyj

The Universal Commerce Protocol, on the other hand, is much more ambitious (and complicated). You can define every aspect of the e-commerce funnel, from discovery to catalog to checkout to order history to returns to loyalty etc.; those aspects can then be consumed by anything, whether that be a chatbot, an agent, etc. This is much more work, but,... See more

"But when cooperative strategies predominate, payoffs will rise as well," Stewart said. "With higher and higher payoffs at stake, the temptation to defect also rises. In a sense the cooperators are paving the way for their own demise."

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