Physicist pushes back on ML community's acceptance that models may be beyond understanding
tszzl · x · 2026-10-16
In a thread amplified by tszzl, BaigYasa argues it's strange that parts of the ML community entertain the idea that the systems they build might be fundamentally beyond human understanding — a stark contrast to the norms of physics and especially biology. The quoting tweet answers with "we must know, we will know", siding with interpretability optimism.
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