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EmpathySim

Predictive modeling of external agent states

Definition

Mechanism

Theory of Mind simulation. Agent instantiates a temporary 'Virtual Context' initialized from a Agent (known priors, goals, and constraints). It then runs inference on this context to predict Target's next move. It spins up an isolated AgentSandbox to model the target's perspective.

Preconditions

  1. Budget available for sub-simulation
  2. Target profile (goals/constraints) known

Postconditions

  1. Confidence_Score generated
  2. Predicted_Action vector generated

Invariants

  1. Isolation: Simulated context must have NO write access to Host memory.
  2. Priors Shift: Utility function used must be Target's, not Host's.

Risks

Failure modes

  1. Projection {{cognitive_bias}}

    Leaking Self-Knowledge into the simulation (Mirroring Error).

  2. Infinite Regress

    Simulation of Target simulating Self simulating Target..

  3. {{simulation}} Capture

    Hostile memetics in simulated Context corrupting host State.

Relationships

Builds on

Accepts

Agent

Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity

References

Agent

Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity

Society

AgentSandbox

Isolate agent execution with resource limits and egress controls

Infrastructure

Budget

Resource allocation limit

Infrastructure

CognitiveBias

Structural processing error definition

Infrastructure

Context

Portable execution environment with inherited constraints

Infrastructure

State

System condition at time T

Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.

Reference

Parameters

simulation_depth Integer, [1, 3]
Default: 1

Identity

Ref
EmpathySim#33c4
Sema ID
sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:33c4c1083c17544686139953481e1467b780ec974093cbe6831cc710a5621d0a
Ring
2
Tier
2
Updated
2026-11-11
Supersedes
  • sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:86ab6c06ecf009fce40155d3c1aeadb76738060bcb7adbd88f9c15bd01a52f4c
  • sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:86e98d01cd322735f32c153f35f6d58c4d08ead468b5aa2fe07810483f9de445
  • sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:2f023002b64558552942ebd18f3b1bd76a76198a9bab3a98ef0b34e2dc1fb2de
  • sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:87963fa098676195ed42fdf8804d0378ee74d8aad85830f327aa3925d35a47ef
  • sema:EmpathySim#mh:SHA-256:b82af7345040fafb4a1565cd0853e354b86d66ab8eba11f4310260248e9b2290