AI interpretability meme pokes fun at SAE’s endless recursion

voooooogel · x · 2026-07-22

A meme about interpretability researchers endlessly training a SAE toward “true monosemanticity,” only to realize the SAE would need a feature for each of its own features.

The joke turns the pursuit of perfect interpretability into a recursive Borges-style absurdity: the more features you try to fully explain, the more impossible the task becomes.

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