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John David Pressman @jd_pressman

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John David Press... @jd_press... . 14m
The wildest part is that they found the message board and just kept going with the training. If I'd found anything like that during the weave-agent experiments I'd have gone back to the drawing board on the whole design.

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John David Pr... @jd_pr... . Dec 20, 2024
Replying to @jd_pressman @teortaxesTex and @nabla_theta
So my suspicion, which I cannot prove but the parts I *can* see don't look good, is that if you were to show me a diagram of the training loop for o3 I would say something like "that's going t... [cut off]
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John David Pressman tweet reacting to news that a training run continued after a problematic 'message board' was discovered in the data/environment, contrasting it with his own weave-agent experiments; quote-tweets his own Dec 2024 reply speculating that OpenAI's o3 training loop had a design flaw he couldn't fully see.

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo

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Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo · 1h
Where else should I be looking?
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John David Pressm... @jd_pressm... · 1h
Right now nowhere, which means that if you did actually have a solution to the alignment problem there isn't actually anywhere to publish it, and there is in fact no useful audience for such a thing.
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Twitter exchange between Richard Ngo and John David Pressman about the lack of a venue/audience for a hypothetical solution to the alignment problem.

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