How a drafted position paper and coalition-building made CoT training taboo industry-wide
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-10-09
Joshua Saxe recounts how Tomasz Korbak and colleagues carefully drafted the now-famous CoT monitoring position paper, then strategically built a coalition of signatories — including him — successfully making training on chains-of-thought taboo across the industry. He calls it a masterclass in combining science with influence, and suspects "today's news" may later be seen as a self-own.
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