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Asymmetry Series — Persona Polarity × Decay Interaction

2026-03-08 10:00:00+00:00 L2 level 398 runs

In plain language

Give three AI agents different cognitive styles (analyst, associator, practitioner) and a stable hierarchy emerges. The practitioner (who "grounds" abstractions) becomes the word source, while the associator becomes the receiver. Neither personas without interaction nor interaction without personas create structure — you need both.

What we found

Minimal persona asymmetry produces stable directional flow. Decay reverses hub polarity (sink→source), isolating memory as mechanism.

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Research hypothesis

Minimal persona asymmetry (cognitive style) + interaction produces stable directional influence and role differentiation beyond what identical agents produce via diffusion.

Series (14 experiments)