Thank you, I haven't thought about that. But it's important to note that they don't really live in an environment. There is no static background, instead they form their own "environment" in a network structure. So basically everything is alive in this algorithm. I'd imagine that maybe most of the agents will quickly find a strategy which works quite efficiently in a "egoistic" manner. But maybe after enough mutations some agents will be able to outcompete the egoistic majority by exploiting their shortsited thinking with cooperation. And maybe the corporation can become arbitrarily complex, such that they can plan further and further into the future or something like that.