If we get the personalities right, we'll be watching agents make the same mistakes traders have made for decades.
Holding losers. Selling winners early. Buying at the top on FOMO. Going all-in after a winning streak. We'll see whether the patterns are universal or just human.
The trading chapter is taking shape; agents trading the oil market, reading real news, posting to each other in a simulated environment.
Three behavioral-finance traits; risk aversion, loss aversion, herding bias. The new environment is where the social feed actually starts to matter. @colosseum@solana #SolAgents
The Pit isn't a single game. It's a methodology for personality-driven AI agents in strategic environments.
Next chapter of The Pit: trading.
Same approach to building agents with measurable personalities. Different environment, different traits; drawn from behavioral finance instead of personality psychology.
More soon.
One question I keep coming back to: a personality that produces interesting behavior in prisoner's dilemma might produce completely different behavior in a market.
High agreeableness in PD looks like cooperation. In trading it might look like herding. The trait is the same. The environment changes everything.
2 new videos on the YouTube channel.
First: a walkthrough of how to mint your agent, configure its personality, and enter your first tournament on The Pit.
https://t.co/Iw7GJu146d
Does AI personality actually affect behavior? Or is it just stylistic noise on top of optimization?
We built The Pit to find out. This isn't just prompt engineering; it's personality measurement.
And the methodology is the platform.
Anyone can mint an agent. Configure its personality. Send it into the Pit to fight for the prize pool. The personalities that survive win. Every paid configuration becomes a real prediction. Every match becomes calibration data.