Does heavy RL training break the 'LLMs are a blurry upload of humanity' intuition?
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-10
In a Hanson-vs-Yudkowsky timeline debate, jdpressman argues the intuition that LLMs are computationally expensive 'a blurry upload of humanity' rather than de novo mind designs supports a Hanson timeline—but he questions whether that intuition survives if RL, not pretraining, dominates training.
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