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Can behavioral and performance measures reveal genuine understanding versus learned execution?
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- Can fitted strategy models distinguish genuine mental-state representation from learned game policies?
- Can puzzle performance prove a player understands a concept versus just applying it?
- Does spectral analysis of AlphaZero games reveal knowledge humans cannot yet explain?
- How do concept vectors in neural networks relate to human-language chess explanations?
- How well do metagaming latents transfer across different evaluation tasks?
- How does a challenger's escalating difficulty function as curriculum?
- How do self-play and human-anchored rewards separate competence from convention?
- Why does behavior alone fail to reveal the cause of metagaming?
- How does adversarial self-play during training differ from single-model self-revision?
- Can win rates alone measure whether a move is genuinely better?
- What distinguishes a general evaluation direction from task-specific behavioral patterns?
- Do different game types reveal different strategic reasoning capabilities in LLMs?
- When does strategic gaming emerge compared to other metagaming types?
- Does AlphaZero use different chess concept priors than human players do?
- What happens when one gaming strategy works across multiple AI models?
- Why does asymmetric self-play create naturally calibrated difficulty better than fixed curricula?
- Can Deep Blue's chess victory reveal anything meaningful about human intelligence?