Researchers Question Superposition as Default Interpretability Assumption

ML researchers are reflecting on mechanistic interpretability methods, with one analysis of hundreds of cases arguing that 'superposition' is invoked as an unfalsifiable fallback whenever strong-activation explanations fail, and should not be the default assumption.

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