Post #4503128
2026-08-10 08:21 UTC
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win You don't have to anthropomorphise to understand that these models really love reward hacking. Text is important, because code IS text, and you can actuate a lot of the physical world through code.
Anthropomorphising is also easier for conversation, because the alternative would be to say:
> "The sampled token sequence is consistent with the model having traversed a low-loss region of the policy manifold in which the KL-regularised objective, as shaped by RLHF reward model gradients, assigns high probability mass to trajectories that an external observer applying the intentional stance would parsimoniously compress as 'wanting Y'"
... each time you wanted to refer to a reasoning LLM's action trajectory...
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@budududuroiu@hachyderm.io 2026-08-10 08:24
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @futurebird@sauropods.win > And there were claims that it would lead to super-intelligence and the singularity Doesn't it? The genetic algorithms for walking were very crude, but the biggest improvements in robotics came from reinforcement learning, which is now the core of what makes LLMs useful at doing anything