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Abstract

Here we introduce the General Theory of Animistic Agency to represent embedded cognitive agents. Animistic Agency constructs an identity between objective statements and evaluative statements, thereby strengthening inferences related to intentions, and refuting the is–ought problem (i.e. Hume's law). This formalism has plausible applications for cognitive science and philosophy, artificial general intelligence alignment, and for the analysis and design of incentive structures within multi-agent organizations, such as corporations, governments and markets.

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Do you really think that plot is complete bs though? Sure it cant be 100% accurate, but it seems to me if the "stamp collecting" effect were so strong you wouldn't see such clear trends. Also, wouldn't you think that such macroscopic analysis would account for the records incompleteness without necessarily destroying the truth of the trend? I tried to see how they derived that plot from the original article but I cant say for certain yet I know. Here's the link though https://muller.lbl.gov/papers/Rohde-Muller-Nature.pdf