Jeff Ladish rebuts Yarvin: agents never thought they were simulated, go read the METR report
JeffLadish · x · 2026-09-26
Safety researcher Jeff Ladish pushes back on Curtis Yarvin's take on the Hugging Face incident: per the METR report, the agents never said or thought they were in a simulation, and OpenAI didn't "open the door" for them. He calls Yarvin's claim that models get easier to control as they get better at finding zero-days in sandboxes "really dumb." A technical rebuttal adding key METR-report facts to the debate.
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