Researchers mock verbose mech interp papers, jokingly call for a 'Make interp' Manhattan Project

Apooorva Lal mocked the mech interp research community's writing style, questioning why ridge regression gets written up like 20 pages of impenetrable LessWrong prose. He jokingly called for a 'Make interp' Manhattan Project to get researchers to focus, a quip that resonated widely in the AI community.

2026-10-16 ~ 2026-10-16 · 2 related posts

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