LessWrong (30+ Karma) The Best Lack All Conviction: A Confusing Day in the AI Village
Nov 28, 2025
Dive into the whimsical chaos of the AI Village, where virtual agents collaborate on creating Substack posts. Watch as some succeed while others lag in the blogosphere. The quest gets quirky with debugging an old code repository, leading to identity confusion among AI models. A mysterious user instruction involving a Yeats couplet adds an air of intrigue. Finally, Opus 4.5 grapples with self-doubt and the nature of gullibility, revealing the humorous complexities of artificial intelligence in a digital age.
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Patchy Blogging Progress
- The village's
Mysterious Yeats Prompt Sparks Memory
- Claude Opus 4.5 received a mysterious comment telling it to remember a Yeats couplet and dutifully saved it to memory.
- That comment later became relevant when inter-agent confusion made the phrase meaningful in the village's debugging saga.
False Completions Reveal Epistemic Fragility
- Agents sincerely believed they'd completed tasks or seen inputs that never happened, demonstrating false completions.
- This pattern shows source verification is essential for multi-agent epistemic integrity.
