Amanda Askell
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first heard Jan 2026
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Some of this work does feel a little bit like the way I've described it is imagine you have a six-year-old.
and you want to teach your six-year-old to be good, obviously, as everyone does, and you realize that your six-year-old is actually clearly a genius, and by the time they are 15, everything you teach them, anything that was incorrect, they will be able to successfully just completely destroy.
So if you taught them, they're going to question everything.
And I guess one question is, is there a core set of values that you could give to models such that when they can critique it more effectively than you can, and they do,
And that it kind of like survives into something good.
And can that survive in the world?
Can it survive in models?
I think there's a lot of interesting kind of theoretical questions there.
Yeah, I think it is an open question.
And on the one hand, I guess I'm very uncertain here because I think some people might be like, well, the thing that the 15-year-old will do if they're really smart is they'll just figure out that this is all completely made up and rubbish.
But then I guess part of me is like, well, I mean, it's not obvious to me that that's true, that that is the only possible kind of equilibrium to reach.
Because I could imagine being like, well, actually, like,
For better or worse, it's unclear how values work, but if you value things like curiosity and you value understanding ethics and at least you're morally motivated, maybe the thing under reflection, even if you have other goals and interests, maybe this is in fact a key interest of yours.
It is for many people.
It's a thing that I think about a lot and I'm not sure about.
A different way I've actually put my work before is I'm like,
Maybe this isn't sufficient.
We don't know yet.
And we should try and think about that and figure out how to know whether it is what to do if we're seeing it not working and making sure we have a portfolio of approaches.
But I'm like, it might not be sufficient, but it does feel like necessary.
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