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This is quick jot-down of experiment results.

I started this essay to investigate where reasoning came from, and I ended it caring about model welfare.

Reasoning is dual-use: It’s that which allows safety researchers to accelerate alignment; it’s also that which allows misaligned AI to take control.

I learned that I don’t want to build another business in an area where I lack domain expertise.

Frontier models will continue scaling, and combined with training innovation they’ll become significantly more useful even than they are today.

[This is a quick un-edited jot-down.]

A couple days ago I was watching my non computer scientist wife train a machine learning model on her astrophysics work, and I felt the acceleration.

[Edit 2026-06-14: When writing this essay I was still unfamiliar with academic computational game theory and its terms.

Epistemic confidence: 60%.