Equation 5 · Part 1 · How Do We Actually Know a Safety Measure Worked?
Symbol k
What this part means
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
k is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol k→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Applied loosely to a red-team programme, this says a clean record is real evidence, and its strength depends entirely on k — the count of genuinely independent attempts, not the number of hours spent. The Constitutional Classifiers paper reports hours, not a count of independent attempts, so the bound cannot even be computed from the published disclosure as it stands, which is itself informative: hours are a proxy…
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