Thinking in Promises

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• abstraction of agency, Proxies for Human Agency
• actions versus intentions, A Quick User Guide
• actively broken promises, Broken Promises
• adaptability, Systemic Promises
• adjacency matrices, Other Circular Promises
• agency, meaning of, Just Make It Happen
• agent relativity, Relativity: Many Worlds, Branches, and Their Observers
• agents
  • assessment of keeping promises, Keeping Promises
  • autonomous, Autonomy Leads to Greater Certainty
  • behaviour of autonomous agents as emergent, Emergent Phenomena as Collective Equilibria: Forming Superagents
  • components as analogous to, What Do We Mean by Components?
  • cooperating individually in decentralized approach, Societies and Functional Roles
  • fluorescent lights as system of cooperative agents, Focused Interventions or Sweeping Policies?
  • having components (superagents), Can Agents Themselves Have Components? (Superagents)
  • inanimate, proxies for human agency, Proxies for Human Agency
  • incentives to make promises, A Quick User Guide
  • incompleteness of their worldview, Is Promise Theory Really a Theory?
  • increasing redundancy for better promise keeping, Cooperating for Availability and the Redundancy Conundrum
  • independence or separation of concerns, A Quick User Guide
  • not making promises about others, A Quick User Guide
  • perception of roles, How Promises Define Agent-Perceived Roles
  • responsibility for keeping promises, Who Is Responsible for Keeping Promises?
  • reusability, Reusability of Components
  • stability of intent or erratic behaviour, Stability of Intent: Erratic Behaviour? ...