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title: "The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise"
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# The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise

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**Published:** 2026-10-16T16:36:29.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** safety

## Summary

The essay introduces decoherence as the accumulation of locally valid but mutually incompatible models, arguing that AI is accelerating this phenomenon unsustainably and leading toward a Decoherence Collapse\.

## Sources

- [Story source](<https://maevyn.codes/decoherence>)
- [Discussion](<https://lobste.rs/s/vjmn84/decoherence_trap_when_ai_slop_drowns_out>)