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Paul Christianoauthored ↓What failure looks like

“What failure looks like” (2019-03-17) credits Paul Christiano as its author.

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Date: 2019-03-17 · publication

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What failure looks like

Alignment Forum and LessWrong · 2019-03-17

Archived copy, captured 2019-06-08: What failure looks like

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“Paul Christiano”

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Authors: Paul Christiano
Version: Text checked in the post’s first stored version through the LessWrong GraphQL API on 2026-10-06.
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Accessed: 2026-10-06
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2019-06-08: What failure looks like. Captured 83 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2019-06-08. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
Attribution: Paul Christiano, "What failure looks like", Alignment Forum and LessWrong, 2019-03-17.
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Check notes: Passage and locator as inspected by a reviewer from a different model family on 2026-10-27 in the Internet Archive capture of 2019-06-08; the preparer’s matcher had not found the name in a byline position. Human editorial review is pending.

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