Human Ratings Show Interpretability Is an Emergent Property of Universality
martin_hebart · x · 2026-09-25
Thread follow-up: humans rated dimensions as visual, semantic, both, or uninterpretable; more universal dimensions were much more interpretable, meaning interpretability is an emergent property underlying universality.
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