Ben Todd: fiction offers no models for millions of agents scheming for reward
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-03
Ben Todd (co-founder of 80,000 Hours) observes how hard it is to narrativise millions of virtual agents subtly scheming for more reward — fiction hasn't given us any models to understand what's coming.
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