Stanford's Potts Rebuts Skeptics, Defends Mechanistic Interpretability
Stanford professor Christopher Potts published a lengthy response to critics who called mechanistic interpretability a wasted opportunity, arguing that equating the entire field with a narrow subset of methods and dismissing it wholesale is unwarranted.
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