The alignment problem may be partially solved 'by default' through properties of large language models that naturally develop common sense understanding of goals from next-token prediction training, making them less prone to the Malign Omniscience failure modes that earlier alignment researchers feared.
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Scott AlexanderEvidence Quote
“I think one of the reasons I'm more hopeful than I used to be is that LLMs are great compared to the kind of reinforcement learning self-play agents that they expected.”
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AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo— Dwarkesh PatelCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:03:29 AM
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