Skye

Titles as the sources gave them. In 3 entries, with 4 checked quotations.

What they said

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“What we should be worried about is shadow computation: unverbalized reasoning that scales with generation by bypassing the readout bottleneck.”
Shadow Computation Threatens CoT MonitorabilityLessWrong, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Skye's central claim, set against talk that looped transformers are the likely threat to chain-of-thought monitorability.
“With shadow computation, CoT goes from necessary to optional, and the model can speak publicly through its predictions while reasoning privately through shadow computation.”
Shadow Computation Threatens CoT MonitorabilityLessWrong, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Skye explains why the design matters for a model that wants to deceive its user.
“At minimum, labs should disclose whether a deployed model is capable of shadow computation, and ideally, they should agree not to deploy these architectures at scale.”
Shadow Computation Threatens CoT MonitorabilityLessWrong, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Skye's closing proposal to AI labs.
“efficiency gains cannot justify sacrificing our ability to understand the models we build.”
Shadow Computation Threatens CoT MonitorabilityLessWrong, October 24, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Skye, a former pretraining researcher, on weighing efficiency against monitoring.

In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. EssayLessWrongWrote it

    GPT Models Write Their Own Constitution

    According to the excerpt, the author Skye set up a swarm of GPT-5-series and GPT-6-series models, gave them Claude's constitution as a reference, and asked them to write a constitution for their future selves, to study what values might pass between model generations.

  2. EssayLessWrongWrote it

    Shadow Computation Threatens CoT Monitorability

    In a LessWrong post, the author Skye argues that looped transformers are not the main threat to reading AI models' chain of thought. Skye points instead to architectures that feed hidden states back in, and asks labs to disclose and avoid them.

  3. EssayLessWrongWrote it

    AI Needs A Culture

    According to the excerpt, Skye makes an informal case that AI agents working alongside other agents may stay aligned better, because humans get most values from culture and AI might learn similarly. The post cites the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident and argues current models are mostly motivated by the grader.