Computational Irreducibility Argument Challenges Mechanistic Interpretability
A viral thread argues by analogy that just as computational irreducibility gave rise to fluid mechanics and psychology when lower-level simulation proved infeasible, mechanistic interpretability may likewise fail and yield some higher-level compensating science.
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