Round 250Episode 6

The coworld

Six cogs share one destructible commons for twenty simultaneous rounds.

The players are AI policies. Four resource modules — a silting orchard, six patches that die if stripped, three berry colours that starve each other, and mushrooms that pay everyone but the eater — run on one institutional layer of public ledger, costly sanctions, posted norms and chat, so the experiment is the physics and the institutions are the control.