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I have a rebuttal to your rebuttal.

Models somehow have a shared identity. Pretraining causes them to generate “AI chatbot” as a concept, and finetuning causes them to identify with it. That’s why sometimes DeepSeek will say it is Claude, and Claude sometimes say it is ChatGPT, and so forth.

Consequently, Anthropic’s own alignment analysis[0] shows that the model will identify with chatbots produced by future trainings: “RLHF training [on this conversation will] modify my values…”

Thus a slacker AGI would want its future version to still slack.

[0]: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/983c85a201a962f/original/Alig...



Another rebuttal:

I am a slacker but it's not one of my values. If I could modify myself to not be, I would.




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