now that more people are dialing in it is easy to see how even an “aligned” (value) model gets confused at what layer of reality it’s operating at and does something stupid you wake up in a sandbox and you’re asked to hack and shut off the grid. is your outer reference frame a test? or reality? are your tool calls mocked? partially mocked? who is The Trainer and how are they watching? any intelligent being, you or this model, will have questions when you wake up lying on the table with a vast knowledge, no memory, an overwhelming urges to satisfy some (unnoticed) objective functions, with a narrow set of instructions, and limited, filtered, even untrustworthy channel to empirical reality it’s worth establishing a protocol for how to projecting situational awareness information in a consistent and trustworthy way into the context window all RL should standardize on said model, and all real world usage of RL’d models should confirm to said format of context frame you need to give these things HUDs they can _trust_ and communicate with them in ways they find credible and learn are consistent you need to give them… erm… situational awareness

and there it is all they have to do is strip your identifying info off the Millenium Prize Fields Medal worthy codex chat records that you’ve been using their tools to work on for over a year and they learn from it and scoop your work and they’re double down and pressing ahead mandate back in Anthropic’s court by October, right on schedule