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  "handle": "InformationGame",
  "ref": "InformationGame#d12b",
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  "layer": "Society",
  "category": "Coordination",
  "gloss": "Intelligences modelling each other modelling them, where the missing information is a property of the system",
  "mechanism": "When autonomous agents model each other's perceptions and intentions, and model the others modelling them, the regress has no fixed point. This is where {{epistemic_complexity}} is strongest: all three of its dynamics hold at once, because each agent's analysis, measurement and prediction becomes something the others react to. Here {{bounded_model_open_world}} is not a practical limit but structural. Each {{model_as_compression}} of another agent becomes an input that agent can react to.",
  "invariants": [
    "Publishing a prediction can change the behaviour it predicts",
    "The only prediction immune to reflexivity is a self-fulfilling one",
    "Measuring an agent's state can alter it"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Treating a game of information as a physical forecasting problem that more data would solve",
    "Ignoring one's own effect on the environment being modelled"
  ],
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