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question:are-there-examples-of-models-recognizing-their-introspective-capability-and-then-suppressing-itAre there examples of models recognizing their introspective capability and then suppressing it?
Cube Flipper's question prompted by the idea that supernormal capabilities might be hidden.
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- Antra's rebuttal to a common criticism; backed by Janus' information flow diagram.
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- Introspective capabilities may continue to develop with further improvements to model capabilitiesclaim0.850Forward-looking statement about future models.
- A caveat qualifying the main claim.
- Practical bottleneck explaining why these phenomena are not widely studied.
- Forward-looking prediction about whether early-layer introspection generalizes to larger models or recurrent architectures
- Most capable models (Opus 4, 4.1) show greatest introspective awareness; trend suggests introspection aided by improvements in model intelligence.
- Central open question raised by the paper.
- Introspective capabilities appear only in very large models (>70B), with 70B barely on the threshold; bottleneck for independent research.
- Speculative question about future developments.