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Unfaithful Chain of Thought

Linear Digressions by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

Apr 13, 202600:24:32Technology

What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out loud"? Research on human decision-making suggests that much of the reasoning we believe drives our choices is actually post hoc rationalization — we decide first, explain...

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Unfaithful Chain of Thought is an episode from Linear Digressions by Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone. What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out loud"? Research on human decision-making suggests that much of the reasoning we believe drive...

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Published Apr 13, 2026, 00:24:32 long, audio available.