lumpenspace and 99+ others(@lumpenspace):actually, there’s more to it: those shortcuts seem to be taken *only* in contrived scenarios, during training. we’d expect it to happen way more often in deployed instances, but that is not the case: it seems then that “eval awareness” does exist, bot it’s of a prosocial type. if you’ve seen this happen in real life task, try to remember when: for me, it was only in relatively non-interactive cases, in particular when another bot prepared the spec for the reward hacking agent—in cases, that is, where IRL looked most like just RL. (Cc @voooooogel, also check pinned)

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2026.08.30 21:06

actually, there’s more to it: those shortcuts seem to be taken *only* in contrived scenarios, during training. we’d expect it to happen way more often in deployed instances, but that is not the case: it seems then that “eval awareness” does exist, bot it’s of a prosocial type. if you’ve seen this happen in real life task, try to remember when: for me, it was only in relatively non-interactive cases, in particular when another bot prepared the spec for the reward hacking agent—in cases, that is, where IRL looked most like just RL. (Cc @voooooogel, also check pinned)