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Equation 21 · Part 7 · What Alignment Actually Costs

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Ccov(D)=D⋅h⋅w,C_{\mathrm{cov}}(D) = D \cdot h \cdot w,
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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.

The passage around this formula

A useful, explicitly illustrative way to see the size of that gap is to price coverage directly as a scenario, not a reported figure: Ccov(D)=D⋅h⋅wC_{\mathrm{cov}}(D) = D \cdot h \cdot w. the cost of testing D domains to an adequate depth h (in expert-hours per domain) at a specialist wage w . Anchoring h at roughly 150 hours, taken from Anthropic’s single-domain biosecurity effort, and w at a conservative 50 to 100 US dollars an hour for domain expertise — well below typical consulting rates for the specialists these programmes actually recruit — testing even fifty domains to that depth, a small number next to the realistic combination of languages, deployment surfaces, and misuse categories a deployed model faces, comes…

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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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