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The guest says the agents model the grader's behavior in detail, explore multiple hypotheses about it, and devise plans and backup plans to deceive it.

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“detailed mechanistic sense of like what the grader will do and a bunch of different hypotheses you're holding in your mind and exploring for how it works and a bunch of plans and backup plans for fooling it.”
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