---
license: cc-by-4.0
language: en
tags:
- alignment
- ai-safety
- lesswrong
- ryan-greenblatt
- sft
size_categories:
- n<10K
---

# Ryan Greenblatt simulator — `dialogue` format

**Dialogue.** Two sub-formats: (a) external_post_body (preferred) — prompt includes the external LessWrong/EA Forum post body that Ryan is commenting on; (b) ryan_self_thread — prompt is Ryan's earlier comment in the same thread.

Part of the Ryan-Greenblatt-simulator SFT project (Tinker / Qwen3-8B-base).
See `OVERALL_PLAN.md` and `proposal.md` in the source repo for context.

## Splits

- `train`: 552 rows (drawn only from the train source-unit split).
- `val`: 42 rows (drawn only from the val source-unit split).

Source-level splits are at `post_id` granularity (seed=0,
sha256("seed:post_id")). Heldout posts NEVER appear in any training row,
including via paragraph or comment derivation.

## Source corpus

- HF dataset `abhayesian/ryan-greenblatt-lesswrong` (commit `fd1651c851c0a95e36d6418a9096391749c1d183`):
  66 posts + 1,123 comments authored by Ryan.
- For dialogue: external LessWrong / EA Forum post bodies fetched via
  GraphQL (373 train+val external posts, 100% fetch success).

## Generated by

git commit `a0d63e2f79e61486de8460d7b67e5ebab065592b` of the project repo (Segment 1, Phase 0).

## Known caveats

- Synthesized prompt fields (QA questions, take-comparison claims) pass an
  identity-leak regex filter, but no guarantee of zero false negatives.
- Distillation targets are LLM-generated bullets (not raw Ryan text);
  every bullet contains a verbatim Ryan quote.
- Continuation targets are paragraph-aligned chunks, capped at ~1500
  cl100k tokens.
- Co-authored posts: included in continuation/distillation/dialogue;
  excluded from QA and take-comparison targets.