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Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud

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Nate Soares [orange square emoji] reposted

Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud · 6h
From the beginning, that's how I expected the world to end.  Not that there'd be immediate problems with dumb AIs that nobody could ever solve; but that people would solve some of the easier problems, and confidently "observe" themselves to be masters of the AI.

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Ryan Greenblatt @RyanGreenblatt · 15h
I do not find it encouraging to see various specific misaligned behaviors go from a high rate with GPT 5.6 to ~zero with Astra. This seems indicative of wack-a-mole / papering over specific problems rather than solving the ... [cut off]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Eliezer Yudkowsky's X post, reposted by Nate Soares, quoting Ryan Greenblatt's wack-a-mole remark about Astra; Yudkowsky says this is how he always expected the world to end, with easy problems solved and developers confidently believing they have mastered the AI.

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Ryan Greenblatt @RyanGreenblatt

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Ryan Greenblatt @RyanGreenblatt

I do not find it encouraging to see various specific misaligned behaviors go from a high rate with GPT 5.6 to ~zero with Astra. This seems indicative of wack-a-mole / papering over specific problems rather than solving the underlying misaligned drives.

This may make behavior better in particular cases in the short run without actually preventing the worse outcomes.

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Ryan Greenblatt @RyanGreenblatt · 15h
The evidence that Astra is more aligned than prior AIs seems dubious to me.

Evidence appears consistent with the AI being as or more interested in score-seeking at the expense of us... [cut off]

4:52 PM · Sep 3, 2026 · 69K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Ryan Greenblatt's X post arguing that specific misaligned behaviors dropping to near zero from GPT 5.6 to Astra looks like wack-a-mole rather than fixing underlying drives, quoting his earlier post doubting that Astra is more aligned than prior AIs.

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