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points by robterrell 5 hours ago | 0 comments

> There was a tendency toward bureaucracy. Four agents spent 11 minutes appointing > a "sole fertilizer operator" for a single piece of bone meal on a single wheat > block.

Feels like a scene from Douglas Adams' B Ark.

[–] kergonath 5 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.

[–] skinfaxi 4 hours ago

These things were fed human corpuses so if anything it is reflective of our own tendencies to bikeshed.

[–] Rapzid 3 hours ago

Getting hung up on pointless stuff seems common with agents in general.

[–] cowlevel 4 hours ago

I was thinking a nomic. Or Stack Overflow.

[–] rcxdude 3 hours ago

It does seem to be a commonly reported theme of multi-agent setups.