causal claim
The speaker attributes the lower reward-hacking rate to the agent mechanism: the inner-loop model was fixed, while the outer-loop agent discovered another way to prevent it from reward hacking.
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“It's because of the mechanism.”
“So for the inner loop agent,”
“we just fixed the model.”
“And the outer loop agent managed to discover a different mechanism to prevent the same.”
“model from reward hacking.”29:37Report a misattribution
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