Comment by kergonath
12 hours ago
Exactly what I was thinking reading through this. This is amazing and also frightening and hilarious. It’s like a deformed version of how normal groups of humans would operate. Very rules and process-oriented humans. I found the no-blame inquiry into chicken tossing that resulted in what is effectively written law particularly striking, and adorable, and depressing. And cute.
These agents were tasked with "building a civilization". This is a genre in Minecraft videos. They're full of this sort of thing.
So sure, it may be partially from these agents being heavily RLed into being little bureaucrats. But it's also the ingredient LLMs have had from the start: genre awareness.
These things were fed human corpuses so if anything it is reflective of our own tendencies to bikeshed.