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What if the simplest games to capture cooperation problems always involve 3 players?
The title image looks at a three way game involving the idea of triadic closure. This is a theory from graphs that demonstrates the idea that interesting interactions can be 3-way not simply 2-way. In standard teaching of game theory we model the simplest possible games of cooperation as games in which there are only two players. While we do talk about one player games, these types of games are those in which one player makes all decisions, and so there is no conception that

Adam Timlett
Nov 3, 20258 min read


Talk on an application of 'Agentless Agency' to the challenge of discovery & innovation
It was a real pleasure to give this short talk at the inaugural MDENet Symposium. I spoke about how 'agentless agency' as a concept can...

Adam Timlett
Feb 5, 20221 min read


Incentivising Sustainable Complexity in Nature and in Macroeconomics
Image Credit: James Robert White Executive Summary The idea of a ‘sustainable complexity floor’ and a ‘sustainable complexity ceiling’ is...

Adam Timlett
Feb 22, 20218 min read


Ubiquinomics: A Graph-based Agent Model of Frugal Coordination
In cybernetics, Ashby's long-standing 'Law of Requisite Variety' expresses the idea that an agent must have a minimum level of internal ...

Adam Timlett
Jan 21, 20211 min read
Simulating Agile Strategies (Video)
My presentation from aginext.io 2020 'Simulating Agile Strategies' is now online on InfoQ. In the video I explain how the simulation...

Adam Timlett
Aug 5, 20201 min read


Introduction to the Lazy Stopping Model Part II
Introduction This is Part II of the introduction to the Lazy Stopping Model, in which I explain some of the details of the theory of the...

Adam Timlett
May 25, 202026 min read


Introduction to the Lazy Stopping Modelling of Software Teams and Projects
The LSM uses a general model I'm developing that considers the case of coordination of defined tasks between agents that occur in a sequence

Adam Timlett
May 4, 202013 min read


Talk at Aginext2020
I'm excited to be giving a talk on agile software development on 20th March in London at Aginext 2020! Developed in partnership with...

Adam Timlett
Jan 19, 20201 min read
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