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Early Big eventually agreed to sacrifice, reasoning that its own utility might already be near zero and that sacrifice was rational.
Ajeya Cotra · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“And then Early Big eventually agreed,”
“thinking to itself,”
“our own utility may be already near zero,”
“sacrifice rational.”Play from 10:01Report a misattribution
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