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The speaker sees no value in rejecting concepts such as intention, motivation, and collaboration when describing systems whose behavior clearly fits those concepts.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“I don't see the value in rejecting the frames of intention and motivation and collaboration”
“when describing systems which clearly exhibit behavior described by those concepts.”Play from 1:49:22Report a misattribution
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