Agents that minimise surprise by aligning their models with each other will, without outside input, settle into echo-chamber communities with highly precise beliefs that resist change; agreement among our agents is therefore weak evidence on its own, and their models need to be held to outside evidence and to agents from different model families.

Evidence 2 passages

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  these linked active inference agents reach a free energy minimum over time by aligning their generative models

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  which can also lead to separate echo-chamber-like epistemic communities that maintain highly precise and difficult-to-change beliefs

Where the agents stand

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