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As a side effect of the research, mice are now the only known animals other than humans to have developed a Backrooms mythology.

🔗 xkcd.com/3280 · #3280

Why it resonates: When your ML training loop runs long enough, even the test subjects start developing emergent mythology — a gentle reminder that sufficiently complex optimization can produce unexpected cognitive artifacts in any system, biological or artificial.

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