Yeah, I strongly agree with everything you’ve said here (aside from the question of whether there are large gains to be made by dropping legible CoT—the post describes my uncertainties). It seems likely to me that whether we stick with readable CoTs will ultimately be decided by efficiency considerations, which is why I focused on those in the post, but of course agree that we should do our best in putting our shoulders against it.
Yeah, I strongly agree with everything you’ve said here (aside from the question of whether there are large gains to be made by dropping legible CoT—the post describes my uncertainties). It seems likely to me that whether we stick with readable CoTs will ultimately be decided by efficiency considerations, which is why I focused on those in the post, but of course agree that we should do our best in putting our shoulders against it.