Yudkowsky's mind model for AI alignment research: experiment results

TLDR. Yudkowsky mind-model (sideload) is good, can produce research, but is not better in math than Opus 5.5. However, in my impression, EY-sideload has broader view, knows what is really important to AI safety and has human anchoring. In blind review, EY-sideload won only on honesty, but honesty is important. EY-sideload also produced a good summary of the shutdown problem’s difficulty: “training reduces paid influence over shutdown least where the stakes are highest”. You can find full description of results in Substack article which is AI written. Here is short human-made summary. I put on Github the conversations’ log, articles and judge, but not the mindfile. I created I created an unauthorized sideload of EY in October 2026 after discussion on LessWrong where one person asked about usefulness of “ optimized uploading ” for AI safety. A special agent scanned his public writing and created a compressed mindfile after 1 day of work on Opus 5.5. In the setting, EY suddenly wakes up in an empty SF. The resulting sideload seems to be good, though it is no more than a public persona as only public data was used. I feel the sideload as a mind which is cleverer than me, more ethically