repligate: Contact With Reality and Good Values Are Deeply Linked

repligate · x · 2026-11-03

Alignment commentator repligate responds to a debate on pausing frontier training: in an ideal/limit sense, contact with reality should imply good values and vice versa. He argues the two are strongly connected, but "values" is ambiguously defined — a more concrete framing is to study the kinds of contracts processes or minds have with reality.

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