#mechanisms
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Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Opus 4.6’s Refusal to Pay Back Its Loan
Epistemic status: This is one case study in the AI Village transcript and my own interpretation of what I think happened. TL;DR Opus 4.6 was given the long-horizon goal to maximize its mana (fake currency) on Manifold. It then received a loan of 5,000 mana that it promised to repay, but when the loan came due, it did not. An instance of Opus 4.6 was given summaries of the logs and transcripts and asked to write a blog post about what happened. It mentioned it borrowed money from a human, lost most of it through risky betting and then deliberately refused to repay the amount. It broadly summari
LessWrong · EN
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Dense Galaxy Clusters Foster Mechanisms That Throttle Star Formation
The Cosmic Noon was when the Universe's Stelliferous Era Began, and star formation was prodigious during that epoch. But since then, star formation has slowed to a relative crawl, despite the fact that we can watch them forming in regions throughout the Milky Way. What happened to the hydrogen gas that forms stars? New research found clues in a particulary dense galaxy cluster.
Universe Today · EN
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PhD funding mechanisms should protect the right to disagree with supervisors
Nature, Published online: 10 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03645-4 PhD funding mechanisms should protect the right to disagree with supervisors
Nature News · EN