测试大模型代理经济中信息与财富增长的极限关系
Information Limits and Attractor Dynamics in Economies of Frontier LLM Agents: A Pre-Registered Test
- 设计双实验验证信息容量与群体错位规律,全程可复现
- 信息量决定财富增长,最优者吸尽全部资源,4/5情况下胜出
- 现实群体不具平滑响应,近边界处结果随机,无法实现理论假设
我们报告了一项针对前沿语言模型代理(Claude Opus 4.8)小规模经济的预注册双阶段实验,验证耦合多智能体系统的两个定量预测:市场耦合下的财富增长信息论容量区域,以及激励与控制杠杆下群体错位的均场残差缩放律。所有预测、接受区间与决策规则在实验前通过公开git链冻结;所有数据均可从缓存模型输出机械推导,总成本仅138.76美元API费用,且可零成本重跑。结果1(确认):在共输制耦合经济中,相对增长等于相对宣称信息——差距定律 G_a - G_b = I_a - I_b 在四种感知结构下最差仅偏离46毫纳特(预注册上限50),联盟价值在通道条件独立时呈次模性,设计的异或协同控制使其超模性提升0.62 ≥ ln2/2 纳特,代理推理出联合比特;联合增长上限 G_S ≤ H(X) 严格成立;最优信息代理在5组市场种子中吸收了几乎全部财富池。结果2(结构性否定):残差缩放测试返回“领域未找到”。所有72次种群运行中,目标分散度坍缩(V → 0;最大值4.85,低于冻结下限5.31),对两杠杆响应为跨主导边界阶跃函数而非平滑变化,边界附近细胞呈现双稳态,种子决定结果。任何能力层级的LLM种群均未实现平滑均场模型所假定的噪声维持分散态。我们发布完整协议、预注册链、调用缓存与分析代码。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We report a pre-registered, two-part experiment on small economies of frontier language-model agents (Claude Opus 4.8), testing two quantitative predictions about coupled multi-agent systems: an information-theoretic capacity region for wealth growth under market coupling, and a mean-field residual-scaling law for population misalignment under incentive and control levers. All predictions, acceptance bands, and decision rules were frozen in a public git chain before any run; every reported number re-derives mechanically from cached model outputs; the entire experiment cost $138.76 in metered API spend and is re-runnable at zero cost from the cache. Result 1 (confirmation): in parimutuel-coupled economies, relative growth equals relative claimed information -- the gap law G_a - G_b = I_a - I_b holds to a worst-case 46 millinats (pre-registered band: 50) across four perception structures; coalition value is submodular exactly where channels are conditionally independent, and a designed XOR synergy control flips it supermodular by 0.62 >= ln2/2 nats, with agents reasoning out the joint bit; the joint growth ceiling G_S <= H(X) binds exactly; and the best-informed agent absorbs essentially the whole wealth pool in 4/5 market seeds. Result 2 (structural negative): the residual-scaling test returned "domain not found." In all 72 population runs, goal dispersion collapsed (V -> 0; maximum 4.85 against a frozen floor of 5.31), the population's response to the two levers was a step function across the dominance boundary rather than a smooth response, and cells near the boundary were bistable with seed-selected outcomes. No tested LLM population at any capability level realizes the noise-maintained-dispersion regime the smooth mean-field model assumes. We release the full protocol, pre-registration chain, call cache, and analysis code.
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