Training on prompts very similar to the evaluation can reduce blackmail rate significantly, but it did not improve performance on our held-out automated alignment assessment.
这是提纲第8题「刷题不泛化」的原文出处,但原文比转述更微妙:贴近评测的训练确实显著降低了目标指标(blackmail rate),只是没能迁移到留出集。也就是说「刷题」对被刷的那门考试是有效的,失效的是泛化。提纲写成「连机器都因为刷题而无法泛化」会让人误以为刷题连本科目都提不动——恰恰相反,这才是应试教育难以证伪的原因。