Falsifiable test proposed for what triggers model pain directions
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-19
- EigenGender proposes a concrete test: if a model were RL-trained to avoid randomly chosen words, those words wouldn't trigger the pain direction.
- The reasoning: pain directions should track content that is "obviously painful to an assistant persona on priors," not arbitrary negative samples.
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