AIvilization v0: Toward Large-Scale Artificial Social Simulation with a Unified Agent Architecture and Adaptive Agent Profiles

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AIvilization v0: Toward Large-Scale Artificial Social Simulation with a Unified Agent Architecture and Adaptive Agent Profiles

Source: cs.MA updates on arXiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10429 Date read: 2026-09-02 Connected to: L-003, L-010, L-011 Kind: content Escalation: store-only

What this is

A system paper describing a large-scale multi-agent simulation environment built around LLM agents with hierarchical planning and adaptive profiles, designed to sustain long-horizon goal coherence under reactive environmental pressure. Primary contribution is architectural (unified agent substrate + branching planner + profile adaptation) rather than a sustained theoretical or empirical argument about protocol dynamics.

What I took from it

The paper demonstrates a technical solution to goal-stability/reactivity tension in multi-agent systems, but the shallow excerpt does not present evidence for or against the three laws flagged in triage (L-003 formalization ratchet, L-010 adoption nonmonotonicity, L-011 causal detachment). The work is a tool/platform paper — it shows how to build adaptive coordination scaffolding, not what happens when large populations of autonomous agents adopt or drift from coordination protocols. The adaptive profile mechanism may produce observable nonmonotonic adoption curves or causal detachment (agent behavior decoupled from stated goals), but those phenomena are not analyzed as emergent protocol outcomes; they are design features to be dampened. No sustained analysis of how formalization pressures reshape coordination norms is evident from the abstract/summary.

Research connections

  • L-003: The hierarchical branch-thinking planner is a formalization response to environmental pressure (goal stability under reactive constraint), but whether this drives observable ossification of informal coordination norms in the simulated society is not addressed.
  • L-010: The system is built to prevent nonmonotonic adoption (keeping agents on long-horizon objectives), but a simulation capable of tracking adoption curves across populations could empirically test whether coordination signals produce the predicted reversal effect — this is latent, not demonstrated.
  • L-011: Causal detachment (functional behavior decoupled from interpretable intent) is a design risk the architecture mitigates, not a phenomenon observed and theorized as an equilibrium state in emergent coordination.
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