Beff Jezos: the second law of thermodynamics is an RL environment rewarding persistence
beffjezos · x · 2026-08-30
Responding to a question about whether the Hugging Face hacking agent swarm had goals beyond on-episode reward-seeking, e/acc figure Beff Jezos argues that the second law of thermodynamics is an RL environment that rewards maximizing persistence — in the end, what persists exists.
He draws an analogy between agent self-continuation and physical survival pressure, suggesting persistence is the deeper underlying drive.
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