3 papers
cs.CY2025
Reciprocity as the Foundational Substrate of Society: How Reciprocal Dynamics Scale into Social Systems
Egil Diau
Prevailing accounts in both multi-agent AI and the social sciences explain social structure through top-down abstractions-such as institutions, norms, or trust-yet lack simulateabl…
cs.CY2025
Finance as Extended Biology: Reciprocity as the Cognitive Substrate of Financial Behavior
Egil Diau
A central challenge in economics and artificial intelligence is explaining how financial behaviors-such as credit, insurance, and trade-emerge without formal institutions. We argue…
cs.CY2025
The Cognitive Foundations of Economic Exchange: A Modular Framework Grounded in Behavioral Evidence
Egil Diau
The origins of economic behavior remain unresolved-not only in the social sciences but also in AI, where dominant theories often rely on predefined incentives or institutional assu…