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A LessWrong post argues that discussions about chain-of-thought monitorability focus too much on reducing pressure from reinforcement learning, and that more adaptive behavior should be considered, where models avoid monitoring despite not being reinforced to do so. The text is truncated before the post's conclusion.

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“TL;DR: Most discussion around CoT monitorability revolves around reducing pressure from RL. However, we should also be considering more adaptive behavior in which models avoid monitoring despite not being reinforced to do so.”
LessWrong, 29 Sept 2026, 21:36.

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