I’ve been an author on a few papers before, but I recently published the first research project where I was responsible for most of the work and direction. It’s in the first 2024 issue of the journal Artificial Life, which you can find here (I’ll post camera-ready paper here later this year, but for now, you can view the pre-print on arxiv. Below, I tell the chronology of the project and summarize our findings. We explore the conditions under which trade can emerge between four deep rei...