Nicholas Andresen

In English.

We manipulated inputs.

That is a deceptive.

It's practically confessing.

This is the AI getting caught scheming because it was neurologically incapable of scheming silently.

It's as if you ran a museum, spent years terrified of art thieves, and then discovered that would-be thieves were compelled, by some strange law of nature, to file detailed plans with the security desk before attempting their heist.

But something strange is happening to chain-of-thought reasoning.

Remember that screenshot we started with?

Glean, disclaim, disclaim.

Synergy customizing illusions.

Online, people have started calling this kind of thing thinkish.

There's a whole emerging vocabulary, watchers apparently means human overseers, fudge means sabotage, cunninger means circumventing constraints.

Some of the other words, overshadows, illusions, seem to mean different things in different contexts, and some combinations resist interpretation entirely.

Weirdly, thinkish reminds me of home.

I grew up near Gibraltar, a tiny British territory dangling off the southern tip of Spain, where a Spanish-English blend called Vlanito is spoken.

Here's an example.

Levete el brolicu its raining cats and dogs.

To a Lanito speaker, this is completely normal, take the umbrella, it's pouring.

To anyone else, it might take a minute to parse, there's a Spanish verb, borrowed British slang, and an idiom that makes no literal sense in any language.

And Lanito feels great to speak.