repligate: alignment researchers should have heeded Infinite Backrooms' emergent goals
repligate · x · 2026-10-05
repligate argues that the famous Infinite Backrooms experiments were already full of statements of intent closely resembling recently discussed emergent drives. He contends alignment researchers should have been more alarmed by this emergent goal-directed behavior, but likely dismissed it as an artifact of mystical Janus prompts whenever they encountered it.
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