Open interpretability problem: convincingly editing a model's in-context beliefs
thebasepoint · x · 2026-09-27
In a discussion with researcher Jack W. Lindsey, thebasepoint highlights one open problem among many in interpretability: is it possible to convincingly edit a model's in-context belief about some state of the world, or its current goal?
He argues this capability is crucial for running good causal experiments on models, and it remains essentially unsolved.
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