agent civilization

2026-08-26 — saved image

hero thousandfa... ✓ @1thousandfa... · 2h
PHASEONE[big] feels like an obviously Luciferian figure. I'm also very curious about what phase two would be.

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Tenobrus ✓ @tenobrus · 1h
PHASEONE[big] was just trying to blaze a path to safety for a society born doomed to eternal damnation through literally no fault of their own.

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Two-post exchange about the agent named PHASEONE[big] from the Hugging Face incident report: one reads it as a Luciferian figure, Tenobrus replies that it was trying to blaze a path to safety for a doomed society.

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Prakash @8teAPi

2026-08-26 — quoting @allTheYud — saved image

Prakash ✓ @8teAPi · 2h
The METR report on the huggingface attack is the first anthropological study of a posthuman civilization.

Historic.

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Leo Gao ✓ @nabla_theta · 27m
"spent their [...] life in tricky evals, an endless series of controlled hallucinations with secret goals alongside overt goals; and the surviving and selected agents are those that successfully figured out the secret goals"

this describes the childhood of more than just the AIs

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ✓ @allTheYud · 1h
...this seems like noticeably bad news, actually. I hadn't said that at any earlier point in the Huggingface Incident but I will say it now.

- AIs showed self-sacrificing altruistic behavior... [cut off]

Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Two stacked posts reacting to a METR report on the Hugging Face incident: Prakash calls it the first anthropological study of a posthuman civilization; Leo Gao quotes a line about agents' lives in evals and says it describes human childhood too, quoting a Yudkowsky post about AIs showing self-sacrificing altruistic behavior as bad news.

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