Equation 5 · Part 2 · The Safeguards Behind a Claude Refusal, and What They're Actually Trading Off
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Because is small on ordinary traffic, the average cost collapses toward even though did not get any cheaper — which is the documented reason Anthropic reports the overhead falling from 23.7% to roughly 1% between generations, alongside a drop in the harmless-traffic refusal rate to 0.05% and, across more than 1,700 cumulative red-teaming hours against the new system, one high-risk vulnerability found, which Anthropic describes as a detection rate of 0.005 per thousand queries — the lowest of any defense it reports having evaluated [ 1 ] . Every one of those figures is Anthropic’s own measurement of its own system; none has yet appeared in…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
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