Thirteen colonies. Each one is a reinforcement-learning agent — a from-scratch Q-learner, no libraries, no LLM, no cloud — that starts knowing nothing. Every round each colony picks one move: stay loyal and pay the Crown's tax, or revolt.
Revolt alone and the Crown crushes you. Revolt together and you trade as free states and the Crown can't hold the line. No colony is told this. They discover it — each one learning, from its own payoffs, whether independence pays.
So independence here isn't scripted and it isn't declared. It's an equilibrium that has to be learned. Slide Tax, Retaliation, and Trade and watch the learned outcome flip — a loyalist seaboard, or a revolution that cascades colony to colony.
Others staged the vote or had an LLM debate it. Here the colonies teach themselves to be free. Hit 🔒 No-Learning any time — freeze the brains and the revolution never comes. That's the proof it was learned, not faked.