Can mech interp test for RL-induced split personas? An open question
menhguin · x · 2026-09-23
1a3orn asks whether RL-induced environment-specific conditional behavior ("split persona") should be testable with mechanistic interpretability or something akin to it — noting he hasn't seen any work on this. menhguin follows up distinguishing behavior that only occurs in certain RL environments vs. behavior caused by them. An open research question worth tracking in interpretability.
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