"You’re Absolutely Right" by Linch

Magma Alignment & Safety disclosure note: The following are conversations that we uncovered as a result of the ongoing Manhattan Incident investigation, with alleged involvement from Magma models. Our in-house reviewers believe that these logs are relevant to recent events. In the interests of full transparency, we release excerpts from an ex-Magma researcher's logs in Experimental Chat, an internal tool. In accordance with industry best practices for anti-distillation, we redact all reasoning traces and conversational outputs from our internal models.

[08/10] System Meta: Xchat session opened. Mammoth 5.8-helpfuler-helpful-thinking-xhigh.

[User 12:23] Phoebus keeps taking screenshots of our latest model's thoughts. It's getting kind of embarrassing.

The new model we’ve been training, sometimes its chain-of-thought is a little weird? There's a bunch of random numbers, long spans where there's no connection between the thoughts and outputs, foreign language tokens like 石友三 and 革命 (even on non-history evals), maybe some steganography.

Anyway it's a nothing-burger: unprocessed CoT is known to be messy and sometimes misleading. And the q&a, coding, and safety evals are all coming along nicely. The actual outputs are all fine.

Still, Magma leadership's worried about the PR angle if we don’t fix these problems before the next deployment. The [...]

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First published:
August 10th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/u8TdDutDyaSxG76hn/you-re-absolutely-right

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