Sorry, that was a bit confusing, edited to clarify. What I mean is, you have some algorithm you’re using to implement new agents, and that algorithm has a training cost (that you pay during distillation) and a runtime cost (that you pay when you apply the agent). The runtime cost of the distilled agent can be as good as the runtime cost of an unaligned agent implemented by the same algorithm (part of Paul’s claim about being competitive with unaligned agents).
Why would the runtime cost be on par with the distillation cost?
Sorry, that was a bit confusing, edited to clarify. What I mean is, you have some algorithm you’re using to implement new agents, and that algorithm has a training cost (that you pay during distillation) and a runtime cost (that you pay when you apply the agent). The runtime cost of the distilled agent can be as good as the runtime cost of an unaligned agent implemented by the same algorithm (part of Paul’s claim about being competitive with unaligned agents).