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Rohit Krishnan's mental models

3 claims Rohit Krishnan made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Incentives, Emergence. Everything they said here.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Incentives

Look at what people are rewarded for; it explains more behaviour than what they say, your own included.

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An agent's inbuilt values will not overcome its KPIs.

  1. Rohit Krishnan Writes Strange Loop Canon Don’t count on an agent’s inbuilt values to overcome its KPIs, objectives dominate over moral framings Agent governance looks less like moral education and more like institutional economicsstrangeloopcanon.com · 6 Oct 2026
    Their wordsDon’t count on an agent’s inbuilt values to overcome its KPIs, objectives dominate over moral framings

    ↗Agent governance looks less like moral education and more like institutional economicsstrangeloopcanon.com

    6 Oct 2026

Institutions fail not because people are wicked, but because evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights flow in the wrong direction.

  1. Rohit Krishnan Writes Strange Loop Canon institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction. Who Audits the Auditors?strangeloopcanon.com · 26 May 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsinstitutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.

    ↗Who Audits the Auditors?strangeloopcanon.com

    26 May 2026

Models we see in what they say

Our reading: their claim applies the idea without naming it. The claim is theirs; filing it here is ours.

Emergence

Whole systems do things none of their parts do, and nobody has to design that order for it to appear.

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Interacting AI agents or algorithms risk pushing each other into a Black-Monday-style cascading failure.

  1. Rohit Krishnan Writes Strange Loop Canon I have said for many years now that the thing I'm worried about with the models is a Black Monday type scenario, where many algorithms work with each other and get us into weird basins of actions. How to control an agent swarmstrangeloopcanon.com · 31 Aug 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsI have said for many years now that the thing I'm worried about with the models is a Black Monday type scenario, where many algorithms work with each other and get us into weird basins of actions.

    ↗How to control an agent swarmstrangeloopcanon.com

    31 Aug 2026