Ryan Greenblatt questions whether plain-text CoTs will really become an alchemical era of observability
RyanGreenblatt · x · 2026-09-11
In a debate on chain-of-thought observability, @tszzl argued that the era of trying hard to preserve plain-text CoTs will look like an "alchemical era of observability" — we could instead understand models' alien ontology from the ground up. Redwood Research's Ryan Greenblatt replied skeptically: "But will we?" The exchange touches the core tension between CoT monitoring and deeper interpretability of model internals.
Related event: tszzl: Clinging to Plain-Text CoT Is the Alchemy Age of Observability(6 posts)→
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