ClaimsEliezer Yudkowsky

“There's a sense in which truth is an accidental byproduct, and there are many pressures besides truth, especially when we get into all the political social stuff.”

Eliezer Yudkowsky September 2025 Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Rationality and Systematic Misunderstanding of AI Alignment (LessWrong)

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There's a sense in which truth is an accidental byproduct, and there are many pressures besides truth, especially when we get into all the…

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Eliezer Yudkowsky, “There's a sense in which truth is an accidental byproduct, and there are many pressures besides truth, especially when we get into all the…” (said September 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_78f4da7a0f1e, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_78f4da7a0f1e

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