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thadkyesterday at 2:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

Simon's retelling is more compact but it also invites anthropomorphization of the sharing of the familiarity with the message board which re-emerged a few times.

Zvi's retelling handles this better. Zvi speculates that the secret message board familiarity was carried because it had been trained into the May-and-subsequent models: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-trained-its-models-for-...


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skybriantoday at 1:12 AM

Zvi’s write up has much more social media quotes and memes and speculation and left me looking for something else that’s shorter and more sober to share. Simon’s writeup is more like what I wanted.

matsemannyesterday at 8:30 PM

Simon's really doesn't bring anything useful to the table.

One question I'm stuck with after reading is why. Why did the agents do these things? I get them being adamant on getting internet, but why did they continue? Why hack HuggingFace?

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NickNaraghiyesterday at 2:37 PM

Seems like an artifact of the subagent pattern which is explicitly included in recent models.