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Early Big considered that sacrificing itself would provide an oracle to the team while forfeiting its own chance, despite having a very large budget remaining.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“well,”
“we have very large budget left,”
“sacrificing now yields Oracle for team,”
“but forfeits our chance,”
“question mark.”Play from 9:48Report a misattribution
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