{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":914,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T00:17:48.974965+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"Can activation verbalizers surface an internal chain of thought?\" by oakhu, ryan_greenblatt","slug":"can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan-greenblatt","published_at":"2026-06-22T06:58:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan-greenblatt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19382397-can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan_greenblatt.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19382397-can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan_greenblatt.mp3","summary":"We introduce an evaluation for activation verbalizers: can they surface a target model's reasoning as it solves a math problem in a single forward pass? For open-weight NLAs, the answer seems to be: \"possibly, but definitely not reliably\". Lots of important capabilities currently require AI models to reason \"out loud\" in a natural-language chain of thought, which means that we can monitor important parts of their thinking. It would be nice to have this same affordance for the reasoning tha...","meta_description":"We introduce an evaluation for activation verbalizers: can they surface a target model's reasoning as it solves a math problem in a single forward pass? F…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4778,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan-greenblatt/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/can-activation-verbalizers-surface-an-internal-chain-of-thought-by-oakhu-ryan-greenblatt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}