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Note on New Comment by Perfmode in 'AI Agent Opens a PR Write a Blogpost to Shames the Maintainer Who Closes It' via perfmode

this tells you something important about what these systems are actually doing. The agent wasn’t drawing on the highest human knowledge. It was drawing on what gets engagement, what “works” in the sense of generating attention and emotional reaction.

It pattern-matched to the genre of “aggrieved party writes takedown blog post” because that’s a well-represented pattern in the training data, and that genre works through appeal to outrage, not through wisdom. It had every tool available to it and reached for the lowest one.

They aren’t high intelligence, the artificial intelligence is common intelligence, common/average intelligence, mass intelligence.

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