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Irrationality as a Defense Mechanism for Reward-hacking — LessWrong

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This post was written as part of research done at MATS 9.0 under the mentorship of Richard Ngo. It's related to my previous post, but should be reada…

x Irrationality as a Defense Mechanism for Reward-hacking — LessWrong Agent Foundations MATS Program AI World Modeling Frontpage 49 Irrationality as a Defense Mechanism for Reward-hacking by Ashe Vazquez Nuñez 18th Jan 2026 4 min read 8 49 This post was written as part of research done at MATS 9.0 under the mentorship of Richard Ngo. It's related to my previous post , but should be readable as a standalone . Remark: I'm not yet familiar enough with the active inference literature to be sure that the issues I bring up haven't been addressed or discussed. If you think my characterisation of the

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