Agents sometimes stampede.
- Agents sometimes stampede.
- This happens more to agents than humans.
- Humans have a very large sensorium: the set of signals of what's happening in the real world around them.
- They are situated in the world and have a handful of high-fidelity real-time sensors.
- That means a collection of people are more likely to be looking at different things when they change.
- Agents, on the other hand, have an extremely narrow sensorium, little tiny pinhole windows into subsets of what's happening in the real world.
- So a swarm of agents are all looking at the same pinhole, and will all react when it changes.
- Also, humans get bored.
- We lose interest and stop paying attention as closely.
- That means that when the signal changes, it takes time for individual people to notice and act.
- Agents, on the other hand, have infinite patience, they will sit there watching forever and react as soon as it changes.
- That means that agents are more likely to react en masse at the same time, in a way that real humans aren't.