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AI agents will soon reach superhuman, AlphaZero-like performance across a wide range of domains.
Their wordswe should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
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Human social cooperation is fundamentally norm-governed rather than purely consequentialist.
Their wordshuman sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
Their wordsIn short, RLVR gives us no reason to expect the normative representations learned in pre-training will acquire motivational force over a given action, especially when post-training repeatedly selects trajectories for terminal task success.
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