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Weight smuggling likely defeats per-run FLOP caps, LessWrong analysis says

Weight smuggling likely defeats per-run FLOP caps, LessWrong analysis says

A LessWrong analysis argues that verification mechanisms struggle to prevent chaining runs together or aggregating parallel ones, meaning per-run FLOP caps could be covertly bypassed. The author puts over 90% confidence in the principle and over 70% confidence that mitigation would be hard in practice.

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