Saxe Responds to Toby Ord: Regression Minimizes Residuals in Log Space

joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-09

Joshua Saxe responds to Toby Ord's critique of his LLM misalignment damages chart: his regression line minimizes residuals in log space, and a rigorous discussion would need to pin down what exactly is being claimed as exponential.

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