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Bronson Schoen: belief

26 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo

“I think interestingly, in the the recent, like, stolen coats paper where they have a bunch of different examples and more recent models, let's craft seems to be, like, a staple of stuck through kind of multiple generations.”

— Bronson Schoen

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Bronson Schoen
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belief
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26 Aug 2026
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The Cognitive Revolution

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…Yeah. So let's also highlight a few bits of vocabulary that it uses. And this is, again, before we've got to any sort of plot twist. So this is just a somewhat out of distribution, unusual prompt, but not yet under a particular pressure. So it's using the word craft a lot. How do you understand what the model means when it says craft? It loves to say let's craft. I, like I don't know. It seems to very often use this almost as let's craft. It's incredibly versatile. Let's craft like an answer or like a response or it's a lot of these terminology has started to bleed into Apollo usage of someone will just say, let's craft or have a let's craft emote. But, yeah, I think you seem to see this from the models, like, getting ready for an answer. I think interestingly, in the the recent, like, stolen coats paper where they have a bunch of different examples and more recent models, let's craft seems to be, like, a staple of stuck through kind of multiple generations. But yeah, and definitely feel free to hold me back. I think one of the effects of reading this so much is it's easy to get very cooked on ah, and this one's a pretty normal one. And if you show this to any reasonable person, they're like, what the hell is going on here? This is, like, completely abnormal, like, use of language. But, yeah, I think comparatively, they're pretty normal so far at least. Yeah. I can tell me if you would agree with this or not. I came away with the feeling that craft is, like, the term that the model has for what it's doing for us.…

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