Journal article
Perspectives Without Independence: Multi-Agent and Multi-Persona Reasoning Under Compute-Normalised Comparison, Why the Gains That Survive Are Not the Ones Diversity Predicts, and the Controls That Would Tell Them Apart
Multi-agent debate, multi-persona prompting and related schemes are usually justified by diversity of viewpoint: several perspectives err differently, so their combination is more reliable than any one of them. That justification is a claim about independent errors, and a scheme that samples all…