To what extent can conceptual reasoning training transfer to ML research capability?

Regarding the controversy over the Redwood CRC team accelerating conceptual reasoning training, the authors quantitatively analyze how much of AI safety conceptual reasoning training transfers to ML research capability. There are three considerations: conceptual reasoning skills are partly domain-specific, ML research is less conceptual, and ML research is more saturated due to RLVR. They envision training Opus 4.5 only with AI safety-domain LMCA-style questions until LMCA improves by 20 points, then testing cross-domain transfer; the CRC team says it has lowered expectations for cross-domain generalization.