press-is-evidence
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Statement
In the central model a shutdown command is evidence that shutting down has higher value than continuing, and a command is evidence about what the agent ought to do.
Source
The author, projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/position-statement-v3.md, section 1.1: "the central case in my mind is that the shutdown command is evidence that shutting down is good. Likewise, a command is evidence about shoulds, or at least we can model it that way."; projects/deference/corrigibility-note-dump-2026-10-01/corrigibility-discussion-outline.md, the leg A1(a), what a press is evidence about.
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