GPT-6 Sol runs a potion shop flawlessly but its reasoning mistakes stock for its own stats
liminal_bardo · x · 2026-10-16
A Merkwelt Research study had a model run a potion shop selling health, strength, mana, and luck potions. According to liminalbardo, Sol ran the shop perfectly, but its reasoning summaries—details that didn't make it into the paper—frequently confused inventory levels with the agent's own stats: claiming its character has "25 health and 25 luck" (actually potion stock), feeling "healthy" on Day 45 because health potions were in stock, and treating the one-antidote-per-day sales limit as a personal constraint. The excerpts come from the paper "No Neutral Worlds" (merkwelt.org), a colorful glimpse into how models blur the boundary between environment inventory and self-state in first-person reasoning.
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