I’m not sure there’s too much to take away from this. It seems like a fun experiment, but I find it unsurprising LLMs failed in this context. They used this “mineflayer” wrapper, allowing GPT to read some game state and take actions. Yet the whole time, the game is running and the agents have to sit and process every minute or so. We know that agents cooperate much better in a harness more like bash in a Unix VM attempting some programming task. To conclude from this that agents categorically poorly cooperate and descend into bureaucracy is an overreach. I think anyone working on AI robotics would find this result pretty unsurprising