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Endogenous Alignment Requires Dependence

Zac Boring October 1, 2026 1 min read
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My post on endogenous alignment got several excellent comments.

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My post on endogenous alignment got several excellent comments. Among them, one from Karl Krueger argued that imitation learning is more important for how humans align their children than reinforcement learning. Teasing out which is more important seems hard, but I agree I was wrong to ignore the importance of imitation, and arguably imitation learning is more fundamental for a reason explained by another comment.As Gunnar Zarncke helpfully pointed out, I had forgotten the most critical part of

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