Alignment researchers deliberately avoided understanding deep learning, argues jd_pressman
jd_pressman · x · 2026-10-29
jdpressman sharply criticizes some alignment researchers for scrupulously self-censoring their understanding of how deep learning works, which he says mentally neutered them and self-selected them out of the meme pool. He adds that needing to explain this now is itself a positive sign.
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