Still, if one wanted to show policy-compliant CoTs directly to users while avoiding putting strong supervision on them, one could use a separate model, such as a CoT summarizer or sanitizer, to accomplish that.

write, test, and push code

These researchers go to bed every night and wake up to another week worth of progress made mostly by the AIs. They work increasingly long hours and take shifts around the clock just to keep up with progress—the AIs never sleep or rest. They are burning themselves out

Unfortunately, by this point the AIs are smart enough to guess that honeypots might be in use, even though (and perhaps because) specific mentions of the idea were scrubbed from the training data.

So if Agent-3 is, for example, obviously writing backdoors into code that would allow it to escape, the weaker models would notice.

Components can become selfish and hog the resources

9. Good intentions aren’t enough

heading off distractions, providing air cover

Leadership in an Agile team context has a singular purpose: to help the team deliver

Wars, revolutions, and social movements, for example, are all archetypes that can fundamentally reconfigure the causal architecture of large and complex systems and put them on a new trajectory. But it is unlikely that one could master the complex and unpredictable causality inherent in these archetypes (although some have tried

n fact, creating a temporary change by providing food, schooling, loans, and medicines or changing the behavior of some actors is often relatively easy

Do things right before doing the right thing | Russell Ackoff, a prominent systems thinker, strongly believed that it was better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right because the former may be improved by learning, but the latter reinforces ineffective behavior. Our data, however, suggest that engaging with a system may be facilitated by doing the “wrong” thing first. In other words, by engaging in activities even if they are not in line with one’s mission and learning to do them right—that is, getting good at doing them

it motivated villagers to engage in a joint effort with Gram Vikas to build water and sanitation infrastructure. The prospect of having a toilet, a shower, and a water tap in the kitchen for every household reduced the villagers’ attention and resistance to the reorganization of the village social life that slowly took place in the background

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