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Optimiser Choice Can Amplify or Suppress Emergent Misalignment

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By Jason Brown, Patrick Leask, Lev McKinney
| LessWrong (30+ Karma)
This is a linkpost for https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31591. Work done with Patrick Leask and Lev McKinney during the Astra Fellowship. TL;DR: Optimiser choice strongly influences emergent misalignment, while model size and family seem to barely matter. Optimisers that concentrate the LoRA update into fewer directions degrade alignment more, but regularising towards a flatter spectrum can mitigate this and improve alignment.
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Vermont Maple Syrup Pork Chops

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By Jason Brown, Janet Konover
| Simply Recipes Verified
Credit: Elise Bauer These pork chops start with a good sear, then finish fast in the oven for even cooking. The maple, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce build a balanced sweet-savory gravy. A simple ingredient lineup keeps dinner easy while still giving the pork real depth. A great, simple dish of pork chops, seared and then finished in the oven with a maple syrup-vinegar-Worcestershire sauce gravy, which gives the pork a bit of a sweet and sour flavor.
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Drilling Down on Methane Loss

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By Jason Brown
| RMI
Methane is the main component of natural gas. Oil and gas are typically comingled underground and extracted together. Gas is valuable when captured and sold—but harmful when released into the air, heating the planet, impacting health, and damaging property. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, trapping 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide in the short term. In oil and gas production, methane can escape in many ways. Some releases are accidental. Others happen during maintenance and repair.
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