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People need new vocabulary and mental concepts to understand the optimization pressures created by training as AI systems become smarter and stranger.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sep 2026

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“And we need to have like new vocabulary, new mental concepts for understanding the optimization pressures that trading is creating that we just won't have even smarter and weirder AIs.”
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