Sandbagging thought experiment

I'm reading this article: https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/misalignment-and-strategic-underperformance on strategic underperformance and I am curious about the extent to which "sandbagging" can survive gradient descent optimization pressure, even in the most favorable cases. I'm going to construct a toy example in which sandbagging seems likely to be possible, then attempt to explore whether…