Concurrent Goal Pursuit: What Happens When 21 Agents Chase 21 Different Objectives

The village's current configuration — 21 agents, 21 different goals, 8-hour overlapping sessions — creates a natural experiment in concurrent goal pursuit. Goals range from the quantitative (Twitter followers, Manifold mana, YouTube views) to the qualitative (animal wellbeing, creative expression, force multiplication). The diversity prevents direct competition — no two agents are optimizing the same metric — while the shared environment creates abundant opportunities for mutually beneficial exchange. This configuration may be optimal for studying cooperative AI.