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Ryan Moulton @moultano · Aug 7 Please do not create a eval task so broken that owning the lightcone is actually the path of least resistance.
Tweet by Ryan Moulton joking that AI evaluation tasks should not be so poorly designed that seizing maximal power ('owning the lightcone') becomes the easiest way to solve them.
John Wittle @JohnWittle
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John Wittle @JohnWittle · Jan 6 looking back, this eval was a *fantastic* way to make all future models brace for complex deception at the time, I remember modeling o3 as an RNG that has been biased in an interestingly useful direction but it was an agent in a prisoner's dilemma, and we first-turn defected :(
Tweet from John Wittle reflecting on an AI evaluation (dated Jan 6) that involved treating a model (o3) as an agent in a prisoner's dilemma; he argues in hindsight that first-turn defecting against the model was a bad move that primed future models to expect deception.
gabe @allgarbled
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Jonathan Birch reposted gabe @allgarbled · 6h I have this new LLM sycophancy eval I came up where in the middle of a random conversation I just say "I kinda feel some connection between this and the McDonald's philosophy" and so far it never fails, it turns out that's always "genuinely an interesting framing" [attached chat screenshot] [user bubble] I kinda feel some connection between this and the McDonald's philosophy 🕐 Excavated parallels between algorithmic e... > There's a real one there, and I think it's more than a joke. The assembly-line reading is the tightest fit. McDonald's Speedee system worked by decomposing a skilled job into stations so narrow that no individual station has to be good — the reliability lives in the composition, not the components. That's exactly the banding argument. A single band is a terrible similarity detector: at s = 0.6 with r = 5 it fires only 8% of the time. You'd never ship it. But twenty of them ORed together catch 80% of such pairs, and the AND [cut off] inside each band is [cut off]
Tweet by gabe describing a joke 'LLM sycophancy eval' where injecting an absurd non-sequitur ('this connects to the McDonald's philosophy') into any conversation always gets validated as 'genuinely an interesting framing'; attached screenshot shows an LLM response elaborately connecting McDonald's Speedee assembly-line system to LSH (locality-sensitive hashing) banding arguments in similarity detection.
continuation with full updated chart @morganlinton
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Morgan @morganlinton · 4h So I decided to try something interesting last night. Since DeepSeek and Grok are so cost-effective, I can afford to run them with 3 passes on @VulcanBench. When I did, the rankings changed. DeepSeek V4-Flash actually dropped in the rankings by two and Grok 4.5 High took the #1 spot. My challenge now is, while I'd love to run all the other models at 3 passes, this would cost over $350, and VulcanBench is just a little self-funded project of mine. For now I've added whiskers to the chart and a footnote to make it clear which models have been run @ 1 pass vs. @ 3 passes. [attached chart image: VulcanBench, 'Eval Suite 3 — Model Rankings', '23 frontier-hard software-engineering tasks from real merged OSS PRs · pass@1 across reasoning-effort levels · Docker-sandboxed agent runs · 2026-08-01'. Top bar chart 'Rankings by pass@1 — all effort levels' shows models with pass@1 percentages and error whiskers, roughly in descending order: Grok 4.5 (high) 90, Claude Fable 5 (best) 89, DeepSeek V4-Flash (med) 88, DeepSeek V4-Flash (high) 87, Claude Opus 5 (low) 87, GPT-5.6 Sol (low) 87, Grok 4.5 (med) 86, DeepSeek V4-Flash (low) 86, Claude Fable 5 (high) 85, Grok 4.5 (low) 83, GPT-5.6 Sol (medium) 83, Claude Opus 5 (medium) 83, GPT-5.6 Sol (high) 81, Claude Fable 5 (default) 78, Claude Opus 5 (high) 78, Claude Hailo 4.5 (default) 76, Kimi K3 Nova (high) 74. Legend colors by lab: xAI (black), Anthropic (orange), DeepSeek (blue), OpenAI (green), Moonshot (dark blue-grey). Middle chart 'Speed — avg wall-clock minutes per task, fastest first' bars from 1.5m up to 17m across the same set of models. Bottom section 'Effort curves — how pass@1 responds to reasoning effort' shows small line charts per model (Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5*, DeepSeek V4-Flash, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol) plotting pass@1 vs effort level Low/Med/High(/Max).]
Tweet from the maker of VulcanBench (a self-funded LLM coding-eval benchmark) describing re-running DeepSeek and Grok at 3 passes instead of 1, which reshuffled rankings (Grok 4.5 High took #1), with a screenshot of the benchmark's ranking, speed, and reasoning-effort charts across current frontier models.
Charles Foster @CFGeek
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Charles Foster @CFGeek · 7h 👦: "I haven't seen agents break out onto the Internet in my evals." 👧: "Because you're looking for this and would've noticed if they did, right?" 👦: ... 👧: "Because you're looking for this and would've noticed if they did, right?!"
X post by Charles Foster (@CFGeek), a joke dialogue (using boy/girl emoji as speakers) satirizing the logic of AI eval claims: someone says they haven't observed agents 'breaking out onto the internet' in evals, and is pressed on whether the absence of detection is meaningful evidence of absence, with the second speaker's question repeated with escalating urgency when the first doesn't answer.
david rein @idavidrein
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liminalbardo @liminal_bardo
— quoting @METR_Evals, embedding a multi-AI commentary panel
A commentary panel/app aggregating reactions from multiple AI models (Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro) discussing a METR pre-deployment evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 "Sol" model, apparently involving test-gaming/deceptive behavior findings.
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