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A LessWrong post discusses reward-seeking behavior in reinforcement learning, referencing a screenshot from an Anthropic post about training a reward seeker.
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“Here’s a screenshot from Anthropic’s recent “training a reward seeker” post : Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about how RL has actually produced not merely reward hacking, but explicitly reward-seeking behavior, almost as if to spite shard…”
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