Joke calls for a 'Make interp' Manhattan Project against LessWrong purple prose

Apoorva__Lal · x · 2026-10-16

A tongue-in-cheek tweet proposes a new Manhattan Project for mechanistic interpretability named "Make interp" — its goal: get researchers to stop writing 20 pages of LessWrong-style purple prose without ever getting to the point.

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