Debate: Can Low-Cost Eval Design Detect Benchmark Contamination?
paulcal and teortaxes debate a new low-cost eval design: paulcal sees it as a cheap robustness check applicable to existing benchmarks and weakly tied to benchmaxxing, while teortaxes argues agents reason about why they misbehave, making black-box behaviorism inadequate.
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