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Roon questions alignment through pretraining beliefs

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The newsletter reports Roon rejecting the idea that alignment should depend on which beliefs reach pretraining, characterizing that approach as unscientific.

Reporting date: 2026-10-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Roon questions alignment through pretraining beliefs
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Reporting date: 2026-10-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-05-roon-alignment
Claim: The newsletter reports Roon rejecting the idea that alignment should depend on which beliefs reach pretraining, characterizing that approach as unscientific.
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- Welcome to October 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-5-2026
- Source linked by the October 5 issue — https://x.com/tszzl/status/2106460700789125552
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