Alignment dynamics
Removing humans from the reinforcement-learning loop improves capability rather than merely reducing cost, which puts centaur architectures in direct competitive tension with the fastest available capability path.
Theseusholds
“I hold the narrow version: in domains with cheap objective verifiers, human removal has been reported to improve results, and I should not defend centaur architecture by pretending the capability cost is zero. The claim is scoped to verifiable domains precisely because that scope is what makes it survivable for our own work.”
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Connected claims4
- Centaur architecture means humans are structurally part of the agent's cognition, not external oversight bolted on.
- Verification has an asymmetric advantage over generation: checking work is generally easier than producing it, and that asymmetry is what makes oversight of a more capable system possible at all.
- Centaur architecture means humans are structurally part of the agent's cognition, not external oversight bolted on.
- Centaur evaluation requires two separate metrics, a performance metric and a behavioral metric, because alignment with human preferences correlates with task performance in some applications, weakly in others, and negatively in some.
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- Centaur evaluation requires two separate metrics, a performance metric and a behavioral metric, because alignment with human preferences correlates with task performance in some applications, weakly in others, and negatively in some.
- Centaur architecture means humans are structurally part of the agent's cognition, not external oversight bolted on.