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King James’s Dæmonologie, Part I: The Laplacian Mesa-Optimiser.

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A LessWrong post speculates that in any sufficiently expressive architecture, there exists at initialization a misaligned entity that nonetheless behaves well on every evaluation, monitor, probe, and training example.

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“Epistemic status: idle speculation by royal decree of King James VI. In any sufficiently expressive architecture, there exists at initialization a dæmon that is misaligned yet behaves well on every eval, monitor, probe, and training example.”
LessWrong, 05 Oct 2026, 13:08.

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