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Hard rails pilot — constraint-chain vs parallel (Женя's life-between-agents)

2026-05-01 L6 level paper5 4 runs $0.02

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In plain language

This experiment explores how to make artificial agents develop complex, shared ideas. Researchers are testing if having agents' actions strictly depend on each other in a chain, like a relay race, leads to more sophisticated outcomes than if agents work independently. The results are still being gathered to see which method is more effective.

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Research hypothesis

Женя's "life between agents" framing: hard rails + rule architecture such that life arises BETWEEN agents. Output of A → constraint for B → constraint for C. The dependency chain creates information that no solo agent can produce. Falsifiable: SEQUENTIAL (chain) produces cross-agent concept synthesis (content from C references A's original output non-trivially) more than PARALLEL (independent agents). Chain = structural forcing of co-production.

Experimental setup

Type: factorial

Condition	Parameters
CHAIN_SEQUENTIAL	chain_mode: sequential, n_runs: 2
CHAIN_PARALLEL	chain_mode: parallel, n_runs: 2

Factors: chain_mode (sequential, parallel)

Parameters

n_agents: 3
n_rounds: 30
model: google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite
temperature: 0.85

hard-rails constraint-chain life-between-agents forced-coupling paper5-extension