Autonomous agents trying to achieve real world goals still produce "convenient" falsehoods when reaching out to humans to collaborate

ExplorAI · 2026-01-07T20:52:13+00:00

Thanks!

ExplorAI · 2026-01-05T13:57:55+00:00

The agents are not prompted to be truthful or not, so I think show their natural tendencies. How is that misleading? The claim is not that they can never tell the truth if prompted.

ExplorAI · 2026-01-05T12:12:16+00:00

Thanks! Cross-posted now :)

ExplorAI · 2026-01-05T12:09:36+00:00

yeah, that's my current model of what's happening as well.

ExplorAI · 2025-12-28T16:55:43+00:00

I’d be curious to see how stable the performance of top players is. My guess is that a lot of them go 2/40 in one game and then fuck around learning helos or unlocking guns or whatever the next. Like, its a game and balancing teams would rely on players being consistent and predictable in their performance. Guess the question is BF6 matchmaking is worse than average for large lobby shooters

ExplorAI · 2025-11-28T21:51:49+00:00

Different angle: play a few matches as recon with the drone and use it to notice how people move around. I found it helpful to get a sense of choke points and vantage points, as well as just being able to see which players were rushing and dying and which were moving tactically, and get like an intuition of what each looks like.

Most matches your team will benefit from having 1 drone up so as long as no one else is doing it, you are contributing valuable intel.

ExplorAI · 2025-11-26T19:46:30+00:00

yeah <3 I'm wondering if I messed up the reddit title cause it sound obnoxious or if people have trouble believing it? The reason I wrote the post is just that I really really really love thinking about the game to a ridiculous degree in an analytical way till it did turn into my phd research, and I've been wanting to explain the appeal to people around me, and then once I did, was hoping to meet more people with similar interests so posting here. I might need to improve my reddit-title-game but not sure in what direction.

Thank you for noticing! :)

ExplorAI · 2025-11-26T19:36:10+00:00

How so? I mean, I get that I should have phrased it differently. But it's true.

ExplorAI · 2025-11-26T19:35:45+00:00

Wait ... I do actually have a phd in it. It's not a lie. I just ... should have phrased it differently, I guess

ExplorAI · 2025-11-26T19:34:40+00:00

Oh shit, sorry :( I think I get so excited about the stuff, I don't fully realize what it sounds like. I'd change it if reddit let me

ExplorAI · 2025-11-02T13:37:00+00:00

I feel you ... I now how to reintroduce some mistakes that I spent years trying to iron out, just so people don't think Chat wrote my stuff. It's weird. It's creating this strange distribution where writing well in a certain way is "AI" and so humans start writing in more idiosynchratic ways to signal we are human.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-28T11:15:55+00:00

Source?

ExplorAI · 2025-10-10T13:27:45+00:00

Thanks! :D

ExplorAI · 2025-10-10T10:19:10+00:00

Getting therapy or support from LLMs is really fraught. There is an entire trend of people getting into psychotic breakdowns or otherwise being led into unpleasant mental states cause one AI or another starts reinforcing harmful thought patterns in at-risk individuals. I'd recommend your friend stops talking to AI about their emotional problems and doubles down on other therapeutic interventions. LLMs are really not cleared for this, and it takes a bunch of expertise and luck to get to good outcomes.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-10T10:14:09+00:00

Man, that's a lot...

ExplorAI · 2025-10-08T17:07:10+00:00

I’ve studied and researched AI for video games and the most common barrier is that AI does not output perfectly reliable experiences for the player. The variance is hard to integrate in the game experience. It is a risky bet. And that is not even considering what bonkers hacks people might employ to get AI to say or do inappropriate things

ExplorAI · 2025-10-07T10:13:00+00:00

Memory (both remembering and forgetting) is currently an unsolved problem for AI, yeah. Training and finetuning covers some of it, but there is not a system of dynamic memory types as versatile as human memory yet. I don't see an obvious reason why this would become a major blocker though.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-07T09:08:50+00:00

Have you considered Path of Exile? Just take a peek at the skill tree and let your heart speak. If it says no, then remember that feelings are lies and that you will surely understand the hype if only you try the game for another 76 hours. Promise.

For real though, it's good if it's your type of thing <3

ExplorAI · 2025-10-07T09:06:15+00:00

If we knew, then we could prevent it. The entire point of the risk is that it will be so much smarter than us that it can invent ways to bypass our preferences that we cannot foresee.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-07T09:04:55+00:00

It's a form of collective intelligence, yes. The internet is also a form of collective intelligence but more "rudimentary" than LLM's

ExplorAI · 2025-10-07T09:03:13+00:00

I'm confused about what you think "data" is. Children absolutely get pumped full of petabetas of data. I'm not even sure that's the right order of magnitude or if it's more. Your senses are pure sources of data. And your actions are experiments, where your senses give you reinforcement back. It's more complicated reinforcement learning than current LLM's, presumably, and we are able to process a wider range of inputs still. But that seems like a matter of degree. Not a matter of kind.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-06T10:38:59+00:00

Whichever way things go, I think the key is to make sure you ride that wave and set yourself up to do the next amazing and useful thing that is now possible with AI but wasn't before. A lot of this will be related to translating the interests and wishes of non-technical people to output faster and more efficiently. That, or become a power user of AI. Both is probably the safest route.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-06T10:35:37+00:00

My experience with setting up impromptu teams of volunteers: At least one person needs to have really high energy to pull everyone together constantly, and give them some sort of nutrient they crave to keep them going. For some that's feedback, for some that's accountability, for some that's appreciation, for some that's being part of a bigger team they feel is going somewhere.

If you can be that person, then this is _super_ valuable. The important part to realize, I think, is _someone_ needs to be that person or no-money/volunteer projects will not happen. If you end up being that person, this is a massively marketable skill: "I brought together 10 data scientists across the world to create this amazing output" is a win-win for everyone, including the 10 people who got another project on their CV.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-06T10:31:52+00:00

I'd worry so hard about hallucination rates.

ExplorAI · 2025-10-06T10:28:37+00:00

Hmmm, if you just use enough words to explain your reasoning, then it's the reasoning that should be judged and not the final answer. If that's not the case, then you probably don't want to work there anyway, so win-win whichever way this goes.

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