4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
opinion claim

Daniel Kokotajlo argues that choosing a no-change default is not a neutral position merely because uncertainty and out-of-model error are high.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

In their words

The transcript segments this claim was taken from

“So I don't think there's a neutral position where you can just say, well,”
“given that out of model error is really high and we don't know anything,”
“let's just choose that.”
28:35Report a misattribution
0.85how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.75importance to the conversation
0.95confidence the claim was read correctly