Keep Agents Small

Small in mass.
- Ants are small but plentiful.
- Large programs are hard to write.
- Favor specialized agents over general one.
Small in time (forgetful).
- Wasps forget. Pheromones evaporate.
- It is an important supplement to agent learning.
Small in scope (local sensing and action).
- Ants are constrained by physics.
- Avoid broadcasting messages, try to target them instead.
- Complex systems with many inter-connections are unpredictable, those with too few are boring (stable), those in between exhibit organization (life emerges at the edge of chaos).