Beff Jezos: Bitter lesson strikes again — compute is the cure even for mechinterp
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-16
Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos) endorses the view that interpretability is a scaling problem rather than a fundamental scientific impossibility — with a better microscope, neural networks turn out to be 'untangled all along', so p(doom) should go down. 'The bitter lesson strikes again: compute is the cure, even for mechinterp.'
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