Why the tails (sometimes) don’t come apart
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I keep coming back to thinking about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Why the tails (sometimes) don’t come apart Arnold Schwarzenegger probably shouldn't exist. The math behind why he does might also tell us something about whether AI alignment goes well. Jan Hendrik Kirchner May 11, 2026 22 3 1 Share I keep coming back to thinking about Arnold Schwarzenegger. He isn’t just the most famous bodybuilder of his era, he is a quadruple threat: a top-of-field athlete, an A-list actor for two decades, a state governor, and (who knew!) a real-estate millionaire before any of that. And he isn’t alone; there’s a small but unsettling list of people with similarly impossibl
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