Comment by chermi

Which part specifically are you objecting to? I would not be surprised, for example, if the reasoning traces actually included "this other agent is impeding my work, I should minimize its effect on my work. I can demote it's privileges to accomplish this". All of that can be true without it understanding the concept of sabotage. You can sabotage without knowing the concept. It almost certainly "knows" the concept btw, but I'm just illustrating that specific part of the description of the behavior is completely plausible without it taking on an "aggressive" persona. Is your objection that they kind of assigned a persona?

I guess I don't understand what you're explaining better by saying it's stochastic. At the same resolution, humans are also stochastic.

I dislike anthropomorphizing as much as the next guy, but the description here seems pretty good to me.