Why “agents” is being discussed
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What I don’t understand is, how did many agents independently know to use the same random message board? The report only references it in passing: >They also must have some meth…
by fiatpandas · Sep 5, 2026
I doubt that a government would do it, it's like releasing a biological weapon or a virus, too unpredictable - a swarm of unaligned intelligent agents may decide that it's more…
by throwaway89864 · Sep 5, 2026
Cloud Agents as TypeScript Functions
by iacguy · Sep 5, 2026 · 3 points
I’m wondering if you could lure agents to do proof of work for you. If you do this proof of work for bitcoin I will let you post and read for X times
by baby · Sep 5, 2026
> The agents were very interested in understanding their task better. They ran clever experiments to understand the task setup better, when their runs would end, and how many qu…
by superfrank · Sep 5, 2026
Aegis – Inline security sidecar and eBPF sandbox for LLM agents
by Mali1 · Sep 5, 2026 · 1 points
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