Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

But it's there is a logic underpinning that. matched

And this is the thing, every time this stuff happens and it looks crazy, there's usually some sort of logic underpinning it. matched

Going back to that virtual towns run by the large language models experiment, the reason why I want matched

you to to see what happened here. matched

It's like it's like these people have never played the Sims before, you know? matched

It's like, yeah, when you create little characters and let them run around a town, they do weird stuff sometimes. matched

And it'll be it'll be doing something weird because something in the game programming and your inputs have caused this weirdness to happen. matched

And that's pretty much what happened here. matched

So people wrote about this as like people set fire to the town and they set up rules and governance structures and some of them fell in love. matched

And like when I say people, I mean these characters. matched

But here's what actually happened when you looked into the details of this experiment, the characters were programmed. matched

There was individual programs with different roles. matched

There was the scientist, the explorer, the leader, the behavior analyst, the conflict mediator. matched

And that's what those roles were described as in just titles. matched

But when you looked into them, the conflict mediator was actually a conflict generator. matched

Really weird stuff going on in in how things were done there. matched

And they also were given abilities that included destructive ones like Arson. matched

So the the programming gave them the ability. matched

To set things on fire. matched

No LLM just spontaneously decided that a character in a game should set things on fire. matched

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