Comment by lostpilot
20 hours ago
Crazy - this is saying agents develop their own biases and culture through their engagement with one another even if the individual agents are unbiased.
20 hours ago
Crazy - this is saying agents develop their own biases and culture through their engagement with one another even if the individual agents are unbiased.
That may be reading too much into this behavior. Watch this video of metronomes self-synchronizing.[1] That's a pervasive phenomenon. Anything with similar oscillation frequency and coupling will do this. (Including polling systems with fixed retry intervals.)
Are you sure that's not just this effect?
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs
Yes, but aren't cultures essentially the same way - people grouped together getting influenced by each other actions and ending up learning from each other (introducing bias into individual agents), doing things together, appreciating similar stuff, talking in particular ways and so on? AFAIK, "culture" essentially means "stuff that goes in in this particular space and time".
The article hypothesized leaders and followers. That's not necessary. Drift towards the mean, plus some noise, is sufficient.
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