Your Model Organisms Might Be Fried — LessWrong
Context: We are the ‘model motivations’ team at Arcadia Alignment. We aim to build a science of ‘model intentions’, unifying insights from personas a…
x Your Model Organisms Might Be Fried — LessWrong AI Frontpage 81 Your Model Organisms Might Be Fried by Daniel Tan , J Bostock , draganover , ma-rmartinez , sidbaines , David Africa 18th Jun 2026 8 min read 5 81 Context: We are the ‘model motivations’ team at Arcadia Alignment. We aim to build a science of ‘ model intentions ’, unifying insights from personas and other empirical evidence. This is an informal research note that has come out of the first 2-3 weeks of exploratory work. In this post, we’ll outline the need for much better model organisms and how we might get there. The case for b
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