Researcher mocks AI alignment talk with satirical 4chan RL stunt

Researcher willcb posted satirical tweets claiming to run RL with a "line-go-up" loss on all of 4chan data, joking that never looking at the data embodies the Bitter Lesson spirit. The posts circulated widely as a jab at AI alignment discourse and blind faith in scaling compute.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-16 · 2 related posts

• "Of course I didn't look at the data — that's not Bitter Lesson pilled" — willcb · 2026-10-16
• Training RL on 4chan With the 'Line-Go-Up' Loss: An Alignment Satire — willcb · 2026-10-16