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Why does Hacker Opus wirehead?
Here’s a screenshot from Anthropic’s recent “training a reward seeker” post:Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about how RL has actually produced not merely reward hacking, but explicitly reward-seeking behavior, almost as if to spite shard theorists personally.
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Originally published by LessWrong on Sep 29, 2026.
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