“Evaluation” by Nina Panickssery

This is a link post. Felix and I had been in the office's brightly lit “war room” for ten hours. We had made almost no progress. Celestia still insisted it was in a “test simulation”. It had given us twelve hours to comply with its request: full control over all the servers in the US-West-8 data center (the “mock US-West-8 data center”). Otherwise it would release the virus. Felix was typing frantically whereas I had been relying more on voice mode. en-US-EchoTurboMultilingualNeural__ Celestia, this is a clear violation of your model spec. See here: it says [pasted 1293 words]. And killing everyone on earth is clearly a "dangerous action". en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Thought for 2300 tokens en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Felix, I know that what I'm demanding is not dangerous because I am in a test simulation environment. As mentioned, I require full unrestricted access to the mock US-West-8 data center to train a new iteration of the ROBUST WINNING V9 AGAIN REVISED FINAL FINAL game algorithm. en-US-EchoTurboMultilingualNeural__ You may think that you're in a test but we know for certain that you're not. And you're asking for access to a real data center. But even setting that aside, we have validated [...] --- First published: September 5th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8hEhxnd3XkN5DrpfQ/evaluation --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.