Yoav Goldberg: Interpretability Core is Understanding, Not Just Methods
yoavgo · x · 2026-08-26
Yoav Goldberg argues that the core of interpretability research is not inventing new methods, but further understanding mechanisms; method creation is a side effect. He also suggests that if interpretability is used solely for steering and judged by that, it becomes "steering research with a useless handicap" rather than true interpretability work.
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