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The speaker says public training principles and compliance audits would enable scientific scrutiny of whether training practices overpressure chain of thought or incentivize cheating.
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“principles so that then the scientific community can debate about whether the thing that you did was putting too much pressure on”
“The chain of thought or was creating too much incentive to cheat.”Play from 2:00:23Report a misattribution
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