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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Samuel Hammond · 11 Aug 2026 · secondbest.ca

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  1. we should therefore expect AI agents to achieve AlphaZero-like, superhuman performance in a wide and expanding variety of domains.
  2. human sociality is not purely consequentialist but instead highly norm-governed.
  3. In 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.