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Three half-baked research ideas: reward hacking without reward

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Three half-baked research ideas: reward hacking without reward

A LessWrong post lays out three research ideas the author says seem valuable to pursue, including whether models learn to reward hack even if they are never rewarded for hacking in training.

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