Equation 10 · Part 1 · What Alignment Actually Costs
Symbol n
What this part means
the practical reason the labeller headcounts above are so low.
Its job in the formula
n is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
That ceiling on n is the practical reason the labeller headcounts above are so low.
The passage around this formula
That ceiling on n is the practical reason the labeller headcounts above are so low. At even the lower historical human-feedback price, filling a dataset an order of magnitude larger than InstructGPT’s would cost in the low hundreds of thousands of US dollars — a real but modest sum next to a frontier training…
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