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x What’s up with LLMs representing XORs of arbitrary features? — LessWrong Language Models (LLMs) AI Frontpage 159 What’s up with LLMs representing XORs of arbitrary features? by Sam Marks 3rd Jan 2024 AI Alignment Forum 19 min read 64 159 Ω 75 Thanks to Clément Dumas, Nikola Jurković, Nora Belrose, Arthur Conmy, and Oam Patel for feedback. In the comments of the post on Google Deepmind’s CCS challenges paper , I expressed skepticism that some of the experimental results seemed possible. When addressing my concerns, Rohin Shah made some claims along the lines of “If an LLM linearly represents

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