🤯How Schelling's model explains segregation!

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]And the catch was that they had to reason through their decision themselves without hard-coded rules. Now, what they uncovered was that LLMs aren't all the same. They actually split into two distinct social personalities. The first were the adaptive egoists, 01 mini and 3 mini, [music] sorry.

[00:00:18]These models default to selfish moves.

[00:00:21]They'll take the personal gain even if it hurts the group. But if you give them a simple social norm message board like a neighborhood chat so they can all converse with each other, they shift.

[00:00:31]All of a sudden they start posting things like, "Let's keep densities balanced by staying put." And so their altruism jumps ninefold. All right, so [music] let's dive into the paper. Hints of altruism in large language model agent [music] society. Now, this diagram is showing us how they set up this sort of simulated city. On the left side you've got classic psychology and game theory setups, so rock, paper, scissors, [music] prisoner's dilemma, and all the risk choice paradigms where you pick between different gambles. Each one is very clean and simple.