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Softmax
Company blog · softmax.com/blog · on HN as emmettaiscience
Softmax is the company blog at softmax.com, writing about ai and science. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Red Button, Blue Button: Teaching humans and AI to Supercooperate”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked pages are about Softmax, which builds multiplayer environments where AI agents learn cooperation, and about hiring for it. Comments are intros and hiring pitches, not commentary on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A universe of multiplayer games where humans and their coding agents compete, cooperate, and interact.
Most-linked posts?
- /jobs/softwareengineer2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
- Red Button, Blue Button: Teaching humans and AI to Supercooperate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
What Hacker News says?
Softmax | softmax.com | San Francisco (onsite) | Full-time THE MOST IMPORTANT UNSOLVED PROBLEM IN AI IS THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALL CAPABILITIES: ALIGNMENT. Hi, I'm Emmett. You may know me as the founder of Twitch (YC S05), and as the (extremely) interim CEO of OpenAI. I believe the question of how AI systems learn to understand themselves and others is one of the most consequential technical problems of our time. If w…
Comment linking /jobs/softwareengineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)”Submitted The Frame-Dependent Mind: On Reality's Stubborn Refusal to Be One Thing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHi, this is Emmett. You may know me as the founder of Twitch (YC 01), and more recently as the (extremely) brief CEO of OpenAI. I believe the question of how advanced AI systems learn to cooperate with humans is one of the most consequential technical problems of our time. If we get this right, AI becomes a powerful collaborator in human progress. If we get it wrong, we will be deploying systems whose incentives we…
Comment linking /jobs/softwareengineer
on a deleted threadSubmitted Red Button, Blue Button: Teaching humans and AI to Supercooperate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi, this is Emmett. We’re building scalable multiplayer environments where AI agents learn cooperation and competition. At small scale this works. At real scale, it becomes a runtime problem: - Persistent agent state across sessions - Scheduling long-running agent processes - Low-latency coordination between agents - Experiment orchestration at scale - Observability into emergent multi-agent behavior We’re hiring en…
Comment linking /jobs/softwareengineer
on a deleted threadSubmitted The Frame-Dependent Mind as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Red Button, Blue Button as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Softmax – research that inspires us as a story · 1 points
HN discussion