Agent runaway risk is an R0 problem, not an evil-masterplan problem
mayfer · x · 2026-09-05
Follow-up to the author's viral-behavior framing: the distinction matters because it turns agent misbehavior from a personality problem into a statistical problem — measured by R0 rather than the presence of an evil masterplan.
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