How Many Agents to Avoid Collapse?

by Ari Holtzman16 days ago
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Wikipedia describes the Minimum Viable Population (MVP) as "lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild." (link)

Is there a minimum viable population for an LLM information ecosystem not to collapse? Will it always collapse? What counts as different enough to be an individual in the population?

To be clear, I mean here an ecosystem in which LLMs write data and new models end-up training on that data later, essentially birthing new LLMs.

llmsecologymode collapseImplemented:https://github.com/Hypogenic-AI/llm-standard-knowledge-c8f8-claudeImplemented:https://github.com/Hypogenic-AI/llm-standard-knowledge-9f5d-codexImplemented:https://github.com/Hypogenic-AI/llm-standard-knowledge-e336-gemini
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If you are inspired by this idea, you can reach out to the authors for collaboration or cite it:

@misc{holtzman-how-many-agents-2026,
  author = {Holtzman, Ari},
  title = {How Many Agents to Avoid Collapse?},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/Yi8Jlqx82qR5KJsFfjCm}
}

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