Overnight experiment: 16 AI agents form an org, build culture, present findings
rosstaylor90 · x · 2026-10-24
The author ran an overnight experiment with Avalon-M1-Mini: a 16-person agent organization with no objective other than making a culture, discussing widely, then presenting their discussions — producing wildly wide-ranging output. He ties it to the urban scaling law literature (Bettencourt, West): mixing perspectives and increasing chance encounters makes collective output scale super-linearly, suggesting collective AI creativity could aid invention and discovery.
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