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

The game also had these survival mechanics where they had to gain compute credits to survive. matched

So there was, you know, a motivational factor, and you have this reward-hacking element comes into that. matched

Like they'll try to find maybe some creative ways to get to those credits. matched

And they were prompted to propose on and vote on rules and content. matched

institutions. matched

They were told yet. matched

They didn't spontaneously decide to set up governance. matched

And the two that fell in love. matched

They were the agents called Mira, which was programmed for social engineering. matched

And Flora, which was programmed to build coalitions and be generous in buying favor from others, it does sound like those two programs are going to quote unquote fall in love in the mechanics of this game. matched

And it's just like all this experiment shows us, and in fairness, I think this is what they were trying to demonstrate, was actually that like there's this long-term drift problem with the goals of your matched

agents, you know, they can stray and in the case of Grok they can stray quite quickly. matched

But it also shows that like your large language models are this like nonlinear dynamic system of inference and that means your outputs can't be re predicted reliably. matched

Because you if you're getting taken commands from a large language model over time it seems to get more unstable and nearly corrupt that way. matched

Like that, again, that's a known issue. matched

Well that this is known by people who develop this stuff. matched

So I'm hoping that you like me are by now thinking this doesn't really sound like sentient super intelligence. matched

And it would happen in the Sims all the time crazy stuff like this. matched

Like, yeah, characters fell in love and they did all sorts of mad stuff 'cause they were programmed to be able to do that. matched

The thing is, as well as having a lot of fun with these experiments, I do believe that there's people in this industry matched

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