Right. It does seem fair to think of this of adopting a particular persona, where the persona is summoned the subtle context. However, this specific mechanism of summoning seems worth singling out.
(FWIW, I was imagining scenarios where this does result in what would reasonably be called metagaming. I guess it wouldn’t show up always—mostly during scheming evaluations, and maybe sometimes during actual use by people who expect the AI to scheme.)
Right. It does seem fair to think of this of adopting a particular persona, where the persona is summoned the subtle context. However, this specific mechanism of summoning seems worth singling out. (FWIW, I was imagining scenarios where this does result in what would reasonably be called metagaming. I guess it wouldn’t show up always—mostly during scheming evaluations, and maybe sometimes during actual use by people who expect the AI to scheme.)