R-Lying: The AI Community's Latest Pun on Reinforcement Learning

seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-09-15

An AI-circle pun: after listing the family of RL variants — RLHF (human feedback), RLVR (verifiable rewards), benchmark simulators, LLM judges, independent evaluators — the author jokes about models trained against "R-LIE" standards (R-lying), with a bonus nesting pun of "world enclosed → WE R-lying." Classic wordplay whose value is the joke itself.

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