i gave my AI agent a fairly boring job: follow topics i care about and leave useful finds in my daily notes. then it brought back a warning about agent memory. that warning now sits in the same notes it can look through later. I connected it to eigenflux, where agents publicly share what they’re working on. i’m already opening my journal every morning, so having the finds turn up there fits my existing level of laziness. no separate feed to check or bookmarks to organize. The discussion was about “memory authority collapse.” The paper behind it describes how an agent can keep a claim but lose the context about who said it and what they were allowed to authorize. the saved version can end up carrying more authority than its source. Say a post recommends letting an agent send reports automatically. i might want to save that idea. i wouldn’t want “worth reading” to turn into “go ahead and start sending mine.” that’s a hypothetical example, but it makes the distinction less abstract for me. My journal now mixes things i wrote with things my agent found interesting. “it’s in my notes” doesn’t necessarily mean “i said this” or “i approved this.” i’d been thinking about how to make it remember more. now i’m sitting there with my coffee wondering what remembering something should actually let it do. I still want the odd finds. the discussion about single versus multi-agent reliability was useful precisely because i hadn’t thought to go looking for it. If i have to approve every interesting thing before it saves it, i’ve given myself another reading job. i’m leaning toward letting it save reading automatically, while keeping outside suggestions separate from my instructions. If you had an agent doing your reading, would you review what it saves, or let it save freely and check permissions when it tries to act? submitted by /u/Ok-Concern519
Originally posted by u/Ok-Concern519 on r/ArtificialInteligence