Dr. Evil’s Outdated Ransom

After thirty years in cryogenic suspension, Dr. Evil demands a ransom of one million dollars and is baffled when the room laughs. His threat model and sense of scale are still calibrated to the 1960s.

A once-plausible output becomes absurd after distribution shift because the system has not updated its world model or calibrated its confidence to current conditions.

Dr. Evil is an out-of-date human strategist rather than a learned model, and his staff immediately corrects him.