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> A postratfic version of this essay, together with the acknowledgements for both, is available on Substack > Edit: if no one thinks an agent can become superintelligent and contest the lightcone while maintaining arbitrarily stupid goals, thats great! I’m only interested in refuting the version that would allow for...

I scrutinise the so-called "reversal curse", wherein LLMs seem not to consider inverse relationships between conceptual nodes. I show that, far from being a proof of a lack of logical skills, it is a normal artefact of saliency, known in humans as associative recall asymmetry, and propose a conceptual-network model...

Editor's note Due to the interest aroused by @jessicata's posts on the topic, Book review: Xenosystems and The Obliqueness Thesis, I thought I'd share a compendium of relevant Xenosystem posts I have put together. If you, like me, have a vendetta against trees, a tastefully typeset LaTeχ version is available...