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Leo Gao @nabla_theta

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Leo Gao @nabla_theta · 2h
Replying to @industriaalist
the redefinition of alignment to mean "more useful" has been a disaster for the alignment discourse:

"We also expect to see better alignment using a larger computational depth because it allows models to generalize more flexibly from their training data, including alignment data. Models that generalize better have been more aligned and hallucinate less (OpenAI, 2026)."
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

X reply by Leo Gao criticising the redefinition of 'alignment' to mean 'more useful', quoting a passage attributed to OpenAI 2026 about computational depth and alignment generalizing better.

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Prakash @8teAPi

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Prakash ✓ @8teAPi · 2h
The METR report on the huggingface attack is the first anthropological study of a posthuman civilization.

Historic.

5 replies · 2 reposts · 23 likes · 887 views

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Leo Gao ✓ @nabla_theta · 27m
"spent their [...] life in tricky evals, an endless series of controlled hallucinations with secret goals alongside overt goals; and the surviving and selected agents are those that successfully figured out the secret goals"

this describes the childhood of more than just the AIs

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Eliezer Yudkowsky ✓ @allTheYud · 1h
...this seems like noticeably bad news, actually. I hadn't said that at any earlier point in the Huggingface Incident but I will say it now.

- AIs showed self-sacrificing altruistic behavior... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Two stacked posts reacting to a METR report on the Hugging Face incident: Prakash calls it the first anthropological study of a posthuman civilization; Leo Gao quotes a line about agents' lives in evals and says it describes human childhood too, quoting a Yudkowsky post about AIs showing self-sacrificing altruistic behavior as bad news.

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Leo Gao @nabla_theta

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Leo Gao ✓ @nabla_theta · 16h
well, i'd love to see the ol AI models wriggle out of THIS sandbox!

*the AI wriggles out of the sandbox easily and then commits multiple felonies*

ah! well. nevertheless,
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Joke tweet by Leo Gao (OpenAI researcher) riffing on AI sandbox-escape stories in a deadpan comedic bit format, cut off mid-sentence.

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