Claim

The name RL Slow is a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Type INTERPRETIVE · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 2325

Referenced 104 times: checked 1, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 101, shared 2. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

AI · 03192ed8 Psychology · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9468 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

3 of 4 review checks done · 3 counted

3 independent evidence lineages · review checks 3 of 4 · stability LOW

Main unresolved issue: 6 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:4cd4f355-e7aa-8400-8719-fdc41184d459

Not yet independently audited.This assessment depends heavily on modeling choices.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: An OpenAI researcher states RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow: RL would teach models 'slow' thinking. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Speaker says the name is purportedly a reference to Thinking, Fast and Slow.; The excerpt says the name is purportedly a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Review gaps: independence reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported.

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0.9468 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 3 of 4 · stability LOW · 6 sources, 3 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:f97768ccc1a7ba36de333cd9ae7841711d0ed70ef531dc4d1fb0a545162601ff

Last changed at entry seq 9678; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

Link	Working	Weight	Counted as
222538f7 support	relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 2 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 2 0.700000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000
8f505fb7 support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.540000	0.540000
0d0fb1de support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 222538f7)
15bf68af support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.800000	1.800000
dd1b4e0a support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 222538f7)
bfd38c18 support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.540000	0.540000

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 2.880000 (the counted weights) = 2.880000 → probability 0.9468

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.8825 to 0.9769, a spread of 0.0944.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

Statements this claim was broken out of. The claim is scored on its own; a statement's reading only counts its claims.

“The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 32 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

Wissner-Gross says the name purportedly references Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 2 Counted

Hedged as purported.
Speaker says the name is purportedly a reference to Thinking, Fast and Slow.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted

Passage makes the connection but marks it "purportedly", which the claim drops; the fragment also does not name RL Slow, and the author's name is garbled in transcription.
An OpenAI researcher states RLSlow was named after Thinking, Fast and Slow: RL would teach models 'slow' thinking.

From Trapit Bansal Twitter profile Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
The excerpt says the name is purportedly a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted
The paper explicitly connects fast/slow reasoning-model terminology to the System 1/System 2 framework and contrasts slow LRM reasoning with fast processing.

From Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models Read 2026-09-28 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

Supports the interpretive link between “slow” reinforcement-learning reasoning terminology and Kahneman’s fast/slow framework, but does not independently establish that OpenAI’s specific project name RL Slow was chosen for that reason.
The paper cites Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow as its dual-process reference.

From Controlling Thinking Speed in Reasoning Models Read 2026-09-28 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

Directly establishes Kahneman as the cited conceptual source in related reasoning-model literature, not as proof of OpenAI’s internal naming intent.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
04c913d0		222538f7
9fbed1de		222538f7

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.

Review checklist

Review checks: 3 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	aed55434
opposing search done	yes	4c6e7a70
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	yes	8f505fb7, bfd38c18

Summary

Supported. The main support is: The paper cites Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow as its dual-process reference. 3ae557d4

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 04c913d09fbed1de

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 4c6e7a70

Review checks: 3 of 4. coverage:4cd4f355-e7aa-8400-8719-fdc41184d459

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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2325	APPENDED
2326	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
2475	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3830	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
7200	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
7908	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
9677	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

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