
Mateusz Bagiński
Author of the narrated LessWrong post discussing the application of Godfrey‑Smith's reproducer taxonomy to agency, exploring scaffolded agents and related concepts.
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Mar 27, 2026 • 6min
“Scaffolded Reproducers, Scaffolded Agents” by Mateusz Bagiński
Mateusz Bagiński, author who applies philosophical biology to agency, explores Godfrey-Smith's reproducer types. He explains simple, collective, and scaffolded reproducers with biological examples. He then maps those ideas onto agency, discusses LLMs as scaffolded agents, and probes when tool use counts as scaffolding. Short, provocative takes on what makes something a full agent.


