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AIs experience substantially more optimization pressure than humans appear to experience in practice.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“with the kids one of them is that the kids are have pro-social instincts that are like baked in from evolution to like you know care about their family or whatever and that is like a relevant factor like and i think it is in fact the case that some humans are you know sociopaths or psychopaths and in fact are more likely to do things like buy their time lie in wait ultimately not care so that that's one factor um another factor which is pretty relevant is that the ais are subject to way way more”
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