Holding Up Boarding 10 Minutes to Tell a Stranger SAEs Aren't Dead, Just Misunderstood
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-19
AI research anecdote: @EigenGender jokes "at this point I'm just doxxing myself" after spotting a fellow passenger wearing a nice SAE-themed hoodie at the airport—and holding up boarding by 10 minutes to tell him that SAEs (sparse autoencoders) aren't dead, they're just misunderstood.
A classic interpretability-community meme that doubles as a take on the current state of SAE research.
Related event: Researcher Misses Boarding Time to Defend SAEs at Airport(2 posts)→
More from Fun
- Professor to AI-written PhD proposals: just send the prompt, let our models talk — rao2z · 2026-09-19
- AI Videos Reveal a Weird Untapped Market: Backyard Underground Housing — generativist · 2026-09-19
- DeepSeek 4.1 Flash surprises user by generating a QR code for phone auth unprompted — mariofilhoml · 2026-09-19
- Researcher uses AI to illustrate how AI writing is breaking peer review — sethlazar · 2026-09-19
- Weekend project plans ruined: developer vents about favorite model getting nerfed — BrandNewFeel · 2026-09-19
- One Paper Per Lifetime? Bronstein Claps Back With a Parrot Joke — mmbronstein · 2026-09-19