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claim:if-successful-crl-could-enable-ai-systems-to-not-only-replicate-human-contemplative-practices-but-also-generate-novel-potentially-superhuman-forms-of-contemplative-and-ethical-reasoning

If successful, CRL could enable AI systems to not only replicate human contemplative practices but also generate novel potentially superhuman forms of contemplative and ethical reasoning

Ambitious claim comparing CRL potential to AlphaGo's move 37 in game-playing

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Contemplative Agent

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

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Over time CRL reinforced contemplative patterns may become habitual and part of the AI's core generative world model
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Key hypothesis about how Contemplative RL produces lasting intrinsic alignment rather than surface compliance

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Confirmatory hypothesis supported by calibrated lift data