marginalium

A note on

arxiv.org

February 24, 2026

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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