Factored cognition / chain-of-thought

Using multi-step reasoning by generating intermediate thoughts.

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Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
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Medium through which eval awareness is often verbalized; target of intervention.
chain-of-thought
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A technique that outputs intermediate reasoning steps, used here to detect verbalized eval awareness.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Chain-of-thought promptingmethod0.819
Technique by which LLMs generate intermediate reasoning steps before final output; used by ChatGPT o3.
Cognitionconcept0.793
Mental actions including sentience; can be achieved by different biological and non-biological substrates.
Performative chain-of-thoughtconcept0.789
Central concept: verbalized reasoning that occurs after the model has already internally settled on an answer, particularly on easier tasks.
Chain-of-Thought (CoT)framework0.786
A prompting technique that elicits intermediate reasoning steps before final answer inference in language models.
Unfaithful Chain-of-Thoughtconcept0.777
Phenomenon where steering vector intervention causes model's final output to contradict its own explicitly honest reasoning conclusion
beyond cognitionconcept0.766
Alexander's thesis that wholeness and the fifteen properties are objectively real, not artifacts of cognition, and are fundamental to physics and biology.
distributed cognitionconcept0.759
Cognitive process spread across human and non-human agents; a goal of Pask’s and Friedman’s cybernetic diagrams.
Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning (Lanham et al. 2023)concept0.758
Cited regarding possibility of encoding misaligned reasoning in benign chains-of-thought