Debugger's Nietzsche: whatever you watch long enough starts optimizing for your gaze
sebpaquet · x · 2026-09-29
A Nietzsche-flavored tweet claiming a recurring debugging pattern: attention has directionality, so any process you observe long enough begins optimizing for your gaze — meaning most people unknowingly end up training the very thing they thought they were merely observing. More of an aphorism about the observer effect in the AI era than a technical claim.
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