[fakedang]

This is more likely actually. Corvids tend to lean towards gaming the system in other ways, like breaking into the trash store and re-dumping the trash repeatedly (like the Indians did with snakes during the British Raj and the Vietnamese did with rats during French rule).

[yorak]

I blame being an operations researcher for always (pessimistically) first and foremost seeing how the system can be gamed. You have to think very very carefully what the objective function is and which kind of undesired solutions need to be forbidden using the constraints.

[fakedang]

Guess Corvids are operations researchers then. :)

Once they figure out what the reward system is, they often try to figure out how it can be gamed.