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

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.

By Matthias DellagoLessWrong
King James’s Dæmonologie, Part I: The Laplacian Mesa-Optimiser

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Originally published by LessWrong on Oct 5, 2026.

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