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Humans generally do not learn highly specific cookie-stealing strategies from repeated incentives when there is a risk of being caught.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“And in practice, humans don't end up learning like very specific ways to like cheat and grab the cookies because of like a bajillion episodes in which like they like were like incentivized to go grab the cookies, but like there was some way they could have gotten caught.”
“And so we just do see that in practice.”Play from 1:24:49Report a misattribution
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