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Yeah I remember when the original post about this came out. Def not recent. Though I think their point survives in that they didn't exactly RL on this.
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I don't think age of the puzzle even matters, all models have search capacities these days
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> all models have search capacities these days

one would hope that they disable websearch and internet access (maybe all tools?) when doing generalization testing?

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Is search part of the model or the harness?
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Maybe that's a rhetorical question but just in case - the search would always be part of the harness. A model is only handling next-token prediction for a given input. That token may be something like [[web search]] to invoke a tool call but the actual call would be handled by the harness.
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