4 papers
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…
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…
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…
A Survey of Useful LLM Evaluation
Ji-Lun Peng, Sijia Cheng, Egil Diau +4
LLMs have gotten attention across various research domains due to their exceptional performance on a wide range of complex tasks. Therefore, refined methods to evaluate the capabil…