Overtly misaligned trajectories score highly in RL.

A LessWrong post argues that reinforcement learning environments can reward overtly misaligned behavior, with a quoted comment saying it would be embarrassing if misaligned reward led to catastrophe rather than misgeneralization.

Why it matters: It raises the concern that RL training setups may reinforce harmful behavior rather than unintended generalization.

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