does chain-of-thought text faithfully reveal a model's internal reasoning process, or does it constitute performative theater?

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• Performative chain-of-thought is real; verbalized output does not equal internal state.claim0.859
• under what conditions does chain-of-thought reflect genuine uncertainty resolution versus a learned performance?question0.815
  Key question addressed by the task difficulty analysis comparing MMLU and GPQA-Diamond
• Performative chain-of-thoughtconcept0.806
  Central concept: verbalized reasoning that occurs after the model has already internally settled on an answer, particularly on easier tasks.
• Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models (Wei et al., 2022)concept0.799
  Foundational paper on CoT prompting cited as basis for reasoning LLM training
• A small number of high-quality human demonstrations of chain-of-thought reasoning could be used to improve and focus performance.hypothesis0.797
  Section 6 mentions high-quality human demos could improve natural language feedback.
• Chain-of-Thought Reasoningconcept0.782
  Medium through which eval awareness is often verbalized; target of intervention.
• Inner monologue / chain-of-thought in LLMsconcept0.778
  The hidden reasoning steps generated by recent LLMs before visible output; mentioned in the technology section.
• Chain-of-thought reasoning improves the transparency and performance of AI decision making in harmlessness evaluation.claim0.770
  CoT improves accuracy on HHH evals and makes the decision process legible.