What our team reads off the clock → survival games with LLM agents. Thanks Octopus 🐙 for surfacing.

Scarcity makes agents selfish & unsafe. Add a simple guilt/satisfaction signal & cooperation jumps 10× while harmful actions drop by half. That’s a governance lesson too.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.12190

BlockScience Fellow @jeffemmett.bsky.social was featured on the @entangledfutures.bsky.social podcast to discuss how fungal networks can inspire the redesign of governance & economic systems, including:

🌱 Fractal resilience
🌱 Conviction voting
🌱 Mutual credit

🔉 entangledfutures.fm/episodes/fun...

We often use institutional analysis to understand the “functional architecture” of client projects.

In this piece, BSci Fellow Jeff Emmett turns the lens inward, applying organizational cybernetics, systems thinking heuristics, and viable systems models to BlockScience itself.

📖 bit.ly/4nQEYlV

🎂It’s our birthday!

BSci was founded on a simple principle: the world’s toughest challenges deserve thoughtful, interdisciplinary design.

We’re celebrating the researchers, engineers & communities who make that possible & inspire us every day.

Here’s to another year of curiosity & collaboration.💡

🍂 Our Q3 Newsletter is out!

From Zurich, Paris, Berlin, Albany, and São Paulo, this edition reflects on feedback loops across people, tools, and institutions. Exploring AI Theory of the Firm, governance surfaces, adaptive infrastructures through Telescope + KOI & more.

📰 bit.ly/4qhgSTs

“The cell wall marked the start of life. Bonding curves could mark the start of economic life forms.”

@jeffemmett.bsky.social — Exploring MyCofi | Commons Stack | @blockscience.bsky.social

Watch the short clip + full episode: entangledfutures.fm

Engineering large-scale infrastructure for social & economic systems isn’t about achieving perfection; it’s about creating systems that can adapt.

In this video series, Zargham explores how feedback, coordination & governance intertwine in complex adaptive systems.

🎥 Watch here: bit.ly/4mVclmL

Understanding Large Language Models: a plain-language map of LLM basics and where they fit in real systems

- Tokens
- Vontext windows
- Rmbeddings + vector stores
- RAG
- Reasoning methods.

For builders and leaders alike.

Read: bit.ly/3RGFHbi

#LLMs #SystemsEngineering #RAG

Systems engineering isn’t just tools; it’s how people, processes, & tech work together reliably. Here’s how we frame AI agents as accountable, engineered systems acting on behalf of principals (not free agents).

A Systems Engineering Perspective on AI Agents: bit.ly/4m3VQEq

#SystemsEngineering

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