Theodore Chapman

Epistemic status: This write-up is an attempt to capture my current epistemic state. It is the result of a lot of confused searching for a handle. I would be surprised if this attempted operationalization of the phenomenon I’m trying to understand isn’t deeply flawed. However, I do think there is...

Produced as part of the ML Alignment & Theory Scholars Program - Winter 2023-24 Cohort under the supervision of Evan Hubinger. Acknowledgements: Thanks to Kyle Brady for his many contributions to this project. Abstract This post argues that the performance elicited by fine-tuning an LLM on a task using a...