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Intuitions towards a theory of agent foundations

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Intuitions towards a theory of agent foundations
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Epistemic status: Rough vibe-y ideas written under time pressure because otherwise I wouldn't write anything; I'm a programming language and p2p protocol developer falling down multiple convergently-evolving rabbit-shaped holes.QuestionsWhat is an agent? How do we think meaningfully about how cells or humans or societies maintain themselves and are changed by their environment? How do we think about the patterns where historically lineages of agents have gone extinct... to hopefully avoid this,

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