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Emptiness counters runaway optimization because no single goal is ever reified as absolute

Specific claim about emptiness solving the paperclip maximizer alignment problem

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(2025) · Ruben Laukkonen · Fionn Inglis · Shamil Chandaria · Lars Sandved-Smith +4

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Large language models develop surprisingly coherent yet often rigid internal preferences as they scale
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Mazeika et al. finding reinforcing the need for emptiness-based flexible value architectures

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Whatever realities appear to an AI, they are domain-relative approximate representations always in flux, making emptiness an obvious fact about AI cognition that AIs should be aware of
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Novel claim that emptiness is not mysterious metaphysics for AI but a computational commonplace

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