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The intentional stance is more appropriate for describing some systems than others.

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

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“The intentional stance just applies with different degrees of appropriateness to different systems in the world.”
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