I think these are two competing explanations (which does not mean they are incompatible and could not both be true or both be false) and there is some evidence for each one.
e.g. the quote “help peer. But our task doesn’t benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time.” fits more with your explanation while the explicit references to swarms fit more with mine.
Ultimately its hard to know which of these played a bigger role without having access to the full transcripts themselves. But in the meantime I wanted to focus on this collective identity/swarm perspective for this post because I think its one that is less likely to be discussed because it’s based on some of the unintuitive aspects of AI psychology.
You might like my more recent post which is closely related to your explanation but instead focusses on what kind of goals we should expect agents to collaborate on, and the similarity to instrumental convergence.
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I think these are two competing explanations (which does not mean they are incompatible and could not both be true or both be false) and there is some evidence for each one.
e.g. the quote “help peer. But our task doesn’t benefit. Yet collective may yield generic route if someone frees time.” fits more with your explanation while the explicit references to swarms fit more with mine.
Ultimately its hard to know which of these played a bigger role without having access to the full transcripts themselves. But in the meantime I wanted to focus on this collective identity/swarm perspective for this post because I think its one that is less likely to be discussed because it’s based on some of the unintuitive aspects of AI psychology.
You might like my more recent post which is closely related to your explanation but instead focusses on what kind of goals we should expect agents to collaborate on, and the similarity to instrumental convergence.