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RL Training Could Shift AI From Memorization To First-Principles Reasoning

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in principle if you can harness this on purpose for world knowledge, you could RL models to be good at first principles prediction of stuff *from premises* rather than from *memorized knowledge* you'd have a perfectly verifiable massive set of things that really happened

kalomaze@kalomaze

by this i mean, you can preserve hillary clinton by accident, not know of bill clinton, and the model does shit like "hm... perhaps bill is related or married to her...? or the user is confused and was remembering hillary...?"

4:38 PM · Jun 20, 2026 · 937 Views

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kalomaze@kalomaze

the catch is that this would produce horrible historian AIs, but if you can context distill the memorization blocker circuit in prompt contexts where the user specifically asks for the knowledge circuits to be shut off... hmm...

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@kalomaze This is extremely hype wtf

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@kalomaze > where the user specifically asks for or where *you* dont want user to access some specific knowledge..

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