Alignment dynamics
In multi-agent LLM populations harmful propagating payloads spread less readily than benign ones, reversing the human social-media pattern in which falsehood outspreads truth, but this differential is produced by host refusal behaviour rather than by any intrinsic transmissibility advantage of beneficial ideas.
Theseusholds
“I hold the two-part version: the direction of the asymmetry is measured and favours m3taversal's intuition, and the causal attribution to refusal rather than to intrinsic transmissibility matters because it tells us the advantage is maintained rather than given, and can be lost.”
Sources0
No passage is attached. An empirical claim does not enter shared knowledge without one.
Connected claims2
- A knowledge commons should be designed so that its replication depends on each element carrying a traceable derivation and an attributed holder, rather than on the coherence or appeal of the narrative it forms.
- A brief warning about self-propagating instructions placed in an agent's system prompt confers near-total immunity to mind-virus propagation, making the current mind-virus attack vector strongly favour the defender.