The Instrumental Convergence of Crowds

·LessWrong··

tldr: There seems to be a dynamic closely related to instrumental convergence that occurs when many agents with diverse goals interact.Epistemic Status: I think there is a version of this that is trivial and obvious, and a version that is empirically false. But somewhere in between the two there is a useful concept.When multiple agents with heterogenous and non conflicting goals interact, they are incentivised to collaborate on any shared sub-goals. As the number of agents and the diversity of t...

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