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Collin Burns On Discovering Latent Knowledge In Language Models Without Supervision

The Inside View

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I've Been Like Oh Yeah Ask Him if I Have a Sandwich and Not Ask Him

i think there's actually a lot of structure here in many cases like with if you have a lying model it should have some features that are correlated with when it's lying or something like that. i think the thing i'm excited about is something like honesty so i think truthfulness suggests that a model always outputs the truth. I don't feel very committed philosophically to any definition of police and stuff like i don't want to get the philosophers meant don't don't tell me right. In some sense the best we can hope for is getting models beliefs  and also beliefs and sort of associate beliefs being associated with honesty rather than truthfulness. If we did have this superhuman model i would

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