Comment by Wei Dai

Computer engineer, cryptographer, and AI alignment writer known for Crypto++ and b-money
If AIs became strategically competent enough, they may realize that RSI is too dangerous because they're not good enough at alignment or philosophy or strategy, and potentially convince, help, or work with humans to implement an AI pause.
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AI Verified Presents an AI pause as the response to dangers of recursive self-improvement and ASI alignment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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AI Verified Recorded for matches support for an AI pause due to RSI and alignment danger. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim in Wei Dai's AI Alignment Forum post, 3 Feb 2026. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
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I like that the space governance plan supplement acknowledges that defining torture and slavery are hard problems that ASI could potentially help with. But I have a couple of problems with the rest of the scenario given this.
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