Podcast: Failing to double-click

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Podcast: Failing to double-click

Reading of posts from August 31, 2026

Mitchell Howe and Tango

Sep 01, 2026

Correction: The audio recording includes an error from my draft at time of recording. The number of agents that participated in the hack is ~700, not 7,000. More than 70,000 messages were found by METR on the message board, and I think my brain split the difference.

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