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Equation 11 · Part 2 · What Alignment Actually Costs

Symbol C_RL

ρ  =  CRLCpre\rho \;=\; \frac{C_{\mathrm{RL}}}{C_{\mathrm{pre}}}
CRLC_{\mathrm{RL}}

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the alignment share of.

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CRC_RL occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.

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That non-disclosure is itself a real limit on what this article, or anyone outside these labs, can account for: the alignment share of CRLC_{\mathrm{RL}} is not a number anyone outside the labs can currently observe, only bound from above by the published total.

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…compute is safety-specific RLHF or RLAIF as against capability-focused reasoning RL. That non-disclosure is itself a real limit on what this article, or anyone outside these labs, can account for: the alignment share of CRLC_{\mathrm{RL}} is not a number anyone outside the labs can currently observe, only bound from above by the published total.

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