Making questions testable.
From interaction to understanding, from experience to improvement.
Beginning with a question
Social world models examine states and changes in interaction. Recursive self-improvement examines how systems use experience, and how improvement mechanisms evolve. Social simulation offers a shared setting for these questions.
Simulate
Individuals · Rules · Context
Define participants, rules, and an environment for interaction.
Begin with a specific question to define participants, possible actions, and environmental rules. Clear conditions make different interactions possible to observe and compare.
Observe
Actions · Relations · Experience
Study how actions, relationships, and experience evolve.
Examine the connection between individual actions and collective change, how interaction history shapes subsequent behavior, and how new experience emerges.
Model & improve
Representation · Prediction · Change
Form predictions and explore candidate changes.
Study representations of social states, possible developments, and changes informed by experience. Uncertainty and the conditions under which a change applies matter throughout.
Evaluate
Comparison · Transfer · Limits
Test across new tasks, participants, and conditions.
Separate proposing a change from evaluating it. Defined comparisons help examine whether a change is useful, where it transfers, and where it fails.
A new context. A further test.
An improvement in one setting invites further evaluation. We study whether it transfers to new tasks and interactions, and whether the methods that propose and select changes can themselves improve.
Explore both research directionsAn open conversation.
Join the conversation on social simulation, world models, and learning.