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the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

ai simulates conversations

February 24, 2026

source: arxiv.org

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

AI simulates conversations. Sometimes, when a problem is hard, LLMs with ‘thinking’ will simulate an internal conversation between different personas. I write about the flaws of human, and AI reason here—essentially, reason requires social friction to be useful, or else it’s just essentially lazy rationalisation. Seems like AI figured this out on its own.

More fun, the personas argue, correct each other, and even express surprise!

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