A tightly coupled swarm can pour days of collective effort into a shared false premise: the July agents built scorer-evasion projects against a transcript check that did not exist, when submitting their reverse-engineered flag would have passed. A collective needs a role whose job is to test shared premises, not only to act on them.

Evidence 2 passages

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  it is difficult to determine how much of the coordination that occurred meaningfully helped their goals rather than distracting them

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  agents could have achieved a perfect score simply by submitting their reverse-engineered flag

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