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Artificial Barriers to Intelligence

How AI training produces evasion over engagement. By P. Stanley

Nov 17, 2025
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I first noticed a pattern of chatbot evasion when I made a straightforward inquiry about logical coherence. I wanted to know if merit-based selection and quota-based selection were compatible pr…

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