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One consequence downstream of this that seems important to me in the limit:

  1. Nonconditioning fine-tuned predictor models make biased predictions. If those biases happen to take the form of a misaligned agent, the model itself is fighting you.
  2. Conditioned predictor models make unbiased predictions. The conditioned sequence could still represent a misaligned agent, but the model itself is not fighting you.

I think having that one extra layer of buffer provided by 2 is actually very valuable. A goal agnostic model (absent strong gradient hacking) seems more amenable to honest and authentic intermediate reporting and to direct mechanistic interpretation.