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What Separates an Optimizer From Something We Merely Describe as Optimizing?

LessWrong · Jun 4, 2026, 7:23 PM

Reading through the AI Control posts, I notice that much if the discussion assumes a distinction between a system executing a policy and a system pursuing an outcome despite constraints. Is there a generally accepted threshold where LessWrong would say a system has crossed from “optimization as desc

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