Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
by colechristensen on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:37AM
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They ramble on because those words are for them, not for you. There is some amount of hiding this through "thinking" modes that are hidden by default, but still you have to remember that ALL THEY ARE are complex statistical machines for predicting the next symbol.
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Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
by Frieren on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:52AM
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> here is some amount of hiding this through "thinking" modes that are hidden by default, but still you have to remember that ALL THEY ARE are complex statistical machines for predicting the next symbol.
100% this. Too many people believes that chatbots "think". Text is all they do, it is impressive, but they need the text to generate more text. They being verbose is the point.
Re:AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
by colechristensen on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:05AM
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While we don't have a direct mechanistic understanding of consciousness there are plenty of experts who will propose all YOU are is a jumble of streams of symbols routing around through your brain. (being fair this is far from the only hypothesis)