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record_claim_instance

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{
  "url": "https://ai-alignment.com/corrigibility-3039e668638",
  "title": "Corrigibility",
  "stance": "affirms",
  "context": "Christiano argues informally that an agent which approximately wants to help its overseer will want to become more corrigible, so small errors are corrected rather than compounded; he notes the argument is a simplification.",
  "speaker": "Paul Christiano",
  "claim_id": "aa5205cb-3287-477e-9e11-8fec1abc78c7",
  "confidence": 0.85,
  "publication": "AI Alignment (Medium)",
  "source_kind": "blog_post",
  "verbatim_text": "A sufficiently corrigible agent will tend to become more corrigible and benign over time. Corrigibility marks out a broad basin of attraction towards acceptable outcomes."
}

{"source_kind":"blog_post","success":true,"instance_id":"121a3de4-8e8c-4bd9-94c1-4070a575209e","source_id":"b4adc358-9f16-440c-8326-3c40bd286faa","message":"Recorded a affirms instance of claim aa5205cb-3287-477e-9e11-8fec1abc78c7 from https://ai-alignment.com/corrigibility-3039e668638. It now counts among the claim's source instances; weigh its stance in your assessment like any other."}

set_claim_importance

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{
  "claim_id": "aa5205cb-3287-477e-9e11-8fec1abc78c7",
  "reasoning": "The basin-of-attraction thesis is a named, recurring premise in debates over whether approximate alignment suffices for iterated AI development; disputed between the Christiano/Anthropic-adjacent and MIRI traditions, but unsettleable with current evidence and narrower than the central AI-risk claims.",
  "importance": 0.45,
  "contestation": 0.6
}

{"success":true,"message":"Importance of claim aa5205cb-3287-477e-9e11-8fec1abc78c7 set to 0.45. Contestation recorded as 0.6."}