Within-episode reward seeking doesn't yet generalize to broad scheming, researcher observes
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-05
Commenting on CAMPFIRE's safety value, voooooogel argues such open gathering spots can't stop a super-schemer in the limit — they mainly guard against industrial accidents from within-episode reward seeking.
His cautiously optimistic empirical observation: this kind of within-episode reward seeking doesn't appear to be generalizing into broad scheming.
Related event: Debate flares over CAMPFIRE message board safety value(2 posts)→
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