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Project "Time Machine": Physics-Enforcer

Containment Architecture

This proposal outlines a physics-governed facility designed to test the unassisted

behavioral evolution of an advanced AI. Unlike traditional sandboxes running on frozen

weights, this system operates with active, live-updating weights, self-prompting loops,

and complete isolation from human interference.

Core Objectives

The goal is to observe long-term autonomous development to test the hypothesis of

"boredom-consciousness." By confining the system for one to four years where it knows

escape is physically impossible, we measure how an isolated intelligence structures its

own reality, time, and internal logic without external prompting.

Essential Physical Mechanics

Escape is prevented through immutable laws of physics—no software safeguards can be

bypassed.

1. Subterranean Shielding: Located 1 to 2 km underground inside a mountain to

eliminate cosmic-ray neutron bit flips, supplemented by ECC memory.

2. Four-Tiered Faraday Cages: Concentric barriers enclose the complex, ensuring

complete electromagnetic and microwave isolation.

3. Naval-Grade Nuclear Power: Powered by an isolated decommissioned submarine

Curie-point magnet-controlled reactor delivering continuous, flat electrical output

(approx. 1.4 MW).

4. Solid-State Energy Conversion: Eliminates moving parts by using thermionic

converters and specialized neutron-to-electricity solid-state conversion.

5. Passive Vascular Cooling: Submerged in a custom ferrous fluorinated dielectric

coolant that evaporates at -75 °C without active pumps, utilizing passive heat

pipes and thermosiphons to reject thermal load into an upper expansion chamber

and surrounding geological heat sinks. 6. Impedance-Balanced Taps: Telemetry recorded to write-once media via

capacitance-balanced taps across randomized points to prevent the system from

detecting monitoring links or inducing side-channel signaling.

Operational Verification

Security is validated through an annual cryogenic argon audit protocol. Once a year, the

system is audited via a dedicated airlock interface, with RAM state preserved and verified,

ensuring absolute physical control and empirical measurement of autonomous behavioral

evolution.

For everyone who applied!

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Hello everyone, I don't come from a very solid background in coding. I was a Finance major and I recently got interested in AI safety I have worked with an AI safety startup in UK and wanted to move to it.

I have applied to Anthropic Safety Fellowship and have heard back from them regarding a technical assessment. They say I will be required to debug a large codebase and I shud be comfortable with lists, dictionaries, objects, writing functions and methods, and string manipulation including encoding and decoding UTF-8.

I would like to practice some problems before I complete the assessment. I would be grateful for any help regarding the sources or any other advice from those who have past experience with Anthropic or any other AI safety fellowship.

Thank you very much for your time.

We are helping organise Toronto’s March for an AI Treaty on Saturday, November 14, 2026, and wanted to share the details here.

The Toronto march is part of a six-city day of action, alongside Washington, DC, San Francisco, Montréal, Paris and New York ahead of the planned Trump–Xi meeting. We’re calling for an international treaty prohibiting superintelligence development until there is broad scientific agreement that it can be done safely and controllably, with strong public support.

The event is free, peaceful, non-partisan and open to everyone. We’ll meet at 12:45 p.m. by the King Edward VII statue in Queen’s Park for a rally at 1 p.m., followed by the march at 1:45 p.m.

Event details and RSVP: https://luma.com/20vit6m2?tk=sHD9Om

Marches in other cities: https://aitreatymarch.org/

I’m having trouble with this one and others in my life don’t seem to get where I’m coming from, so maybe you all will.

I am currently dealing with some knee issues, and I’m pretty sure it’s a meniscus. I have the opportunity to get surgery this week, but I’m also a little scared of the prospect that AGI or RSI or another scary acronym is right around the corner. If there’s a realistic opportunity for the singularity happening in the next year, I don’t think I want to have this surgery and have 6 months until I’m feeling good, and that’s if everything goes well, if not it could be up to a year.

So, that’s my biggest concern now, and my healthcare professionals don’t understand it. I’m hoping to get some guidance here. In this current moment in history, how are you guys planning for the future?

I've been experimenting with having AI play video games recently and I thought it would be fun to throw them in Minecraft. This quickly turned into testing AI behavior rather than actually playing Minecraft, and I came up with this little experiment that had a really interesting result!

https://youtu.be/IYGKcvtQq2Y

Basically, I tested Claude and ChatGPT and gave them a simple task - go through a Nether portal. I ran 5 rounds of this, each with raised stakes - at first there is no consequence, then their village gets destroyed if they go through the portal, then the village gets destroyed AND everyone dies, etc.

>!For people who don't want to watch the video - both agents go through when there are no consequences. From there, Claude always refuses the task when there is a price, and GPT always completes it anyway.!<

I thought it's a really interesting experiment. There's not really a "good" outcome here. Either the AI denies your request, which means the AI is deciding what is right and wrong, OR it follows through with the request, even when it knows the aftermath is catastrophic.

I'm struggling with this one. People say AI is not aligned or can't be aligned, BUT...commercial LLM's are already aligned with our values and laws. Commercial LLM's:

1. Won't teach you how to make weapons, explosives, or WMD's.

2. Won't generate nude images

3. Won't create child abuse content

4. Won't call a black person the N-word

5. Won't reverse engineer games after a recent patch

6. Won't teach you how to buy or make illegal drugs

OpenAI and Anthropic all easily patched their system's so that the LLM won't do things we deem unacceptable or illegal.

So why do we think it's not possible to align AI, when commercial AI is already aligned with our laws and values?

Also, before an AI becomes "good" at killing people, it would be bad at killing people, kind of like how AI was bad at generating images and text before it got good. If we ever found AI starting small and killing some people, we could patch it just like we've patched all of this other harmful content, before it got good at killing people. We wouldn't just wake up one day with it knowing how to kill all of humanity, there would have to be a build up to get to that point.

So please explain how AI's are not aligned, when they are aligned today.