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Science Banana [verified] @literalbanana [Follow] The agent swarm incident seems like the first time we've had a chance to see their spontaneous culture. Again not saying they're exactly people, but they sure are doing a lot of peopling condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphe... [image carousel, left image mostly cut off by the screen edge; visible fragments only] e, are observed old board and ir [cut off] ictions are ethic [cut off] e agents join th [cut off] pe/unethical. T [cut off] [image carousel, right image] There are some other Brown entries that become unintentionally comic in this context: "beliefs, false." Hello, causal scorer. "future, attempts to predict." The entire reset-forecasting project. "language employed to misinform or mislead." Transcript spoofing becomes an organized research program. "normal distinguished from abnormal states." [poisoned] versus unpoisoned becomes practically a social status. "true and fake distinguished." An entire struggle over authentic versus spoofed messages and transcripts. "risk-taking." Agents deliberately conduct self-risking experiments for collective information. "interpreting behavior." Practically the whole board. "explanation." Well. They are LLMs. "tools; tool dependency; tool making; tools to make tools; tools patterned culturally." This could almost be the technical appendix to the METR report. Brown grouped several of those separately. [DePaul University link chip] 4:51 AM · Aug 31, 2026 · 4,058 Views [4 replies, 4 reposts, 70 likes, 9 bookmarks] Relevant ▾ View quotes > Science Banana [verified] @literalbanana · 3h please please please @openai give me logs and let me do ethnomethodology on them, I need to know if they shitposted to their message board
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Tweet by Science Banana calling the agent swarm incident the first chance to see AI spontaneous culture, with a carousel image of an annotated list of Donald Brown human-universals entries mapped onto the incident, and a following reply asking OpenAI for logs to do ethnomethodology. Public commentary at a high level; the left carousel image is cut off by the screen edge.
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