'I'd really like to meet that neuron': interpretability researchers joke about falling for neat stories
hrishioa · x · 2026-10-16
An ML researcher quipped "I'd really like to meet that neuron," and in the reply admitted they too once fully bought into superposition as an explanation simply because it made so much sense. The exchange reflects a self-deprecating culture in the mechanistic interpretability community: researchers often embrace clean mechanistic narratives even though real networks are messier than the stories told about them.
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