Don't overupdate on that viral interpretability post, warns researcher

voooooogel · x · 2026-10-16

Reacting to a viral interpretability post, the author cautions against overupdating: superposition isn't the field's only problem, revisiting neurons isn't new (Transluce did similar work last year), and the field has seen promising breakthroughs fizzle before — citing scaling monosemanticity.

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