“We set each monitor's threshold so that exactly 2% of honest held-out transcripts, pooled across all checkpoints, are flagged.”

LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · "Character training can mitigate reward hacking, but can also make it harder to detect" by Paul Colognese, Francis Rhys Ward

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set monitor thresholds so that exactly 2 % of honest held-out transcripts are flagged, then measured relative monitor catch rates across characters

2 % false-positive rate on honest transcripts

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