NLA Won't Reveal How Addition Splits Into Mod-10 and Magnitude Parts, Author Argues
thebasepoint · x · 2026-09-27
Continuing the thread, the author argues that NLA will not show internal structures like addition splitting into mod-10 and magnitude components, pointing to a limitation of this interpretability approach for mechanistic discovery.
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