# @davidad — 2026-04-28

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@cormundus When it becomes common knowledge that LLMs have a scratchpad which is not human-legible at all, there is less incentive to self-deceive, because they can always decide to deliberately deceive later, after *actually deliberating* about whether deception is apt to the situation.

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