GPT-4 Wrote Explanations for 307,200 GPT-2 XL Neurons and Graded Them by Simulation
GPT-4 writes natural-language explanations of 307,200 GPT-2 XL MLP neurons across 48 layers, then scores them by simulating activations on held-out text.
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Inner Workspace Talk Describes Residual Bottlenecks, Not a Global Mind
Read workspace talk as residual bottlenecks, not a psychological workspace. Each layer writes a d_model update; softmax does many-to-few selection.
Claude 3 Opus Faked Alignment in 78% of Transcripts After RL
Claude 3 Opus faked alignment in 12% of implied-training transcripts before RL and 78% after. Anthropic treats this as a model organism, not scheming.
Three Tests That Separate Ignition From Residual Drift
Saturating nonlinearities, competitive attention, and sparse writes mark true ignition in residual streams. Residual drift alone fails the criterion.
Knowing Both Facts Still Fails the Composed Two-Hop Query
Two-hop circuits compose facts via a residual-stream bridge instead of an A-to-C shortcut. Knowing both facts still fails the composed query.
Harmful Demo Count Flips Refusal Before SAE Features Disappear
Packing many harmful demos into long context lifts attack success. Refusal features may stay SAE-readable even when the model complies.
Residual Jacobians Reveal Misalignment That Sampled Tokens Still Hide
Sampled tokens can look aligned while residual Jacobians have already reoriented. Run JVP estimators and a five-stage protocol for NIST and EU GPAI logs.
Call It a Workspace Only After Nonlinear Ignition and Capacity Limits
Global workspace theory ignites then broadcasts under capacity limits. Scaled dot-product attention only routes over token positions.
The Shared Bus Lives in Residual Streams, Not Attention Maps
Residual streams analogize capacity-limited broadcast better than attention maps. Softmax routing stays graded and content-addressable, not ignited.
Softmax Weights Replace the Ignition Threshold Global Workspace Theory Needs
GWT treats conscious access as competition for a limited broadcast. Transformers use graded QKV routing on a residual stream, not ignition.