Ramez Naam weighs in on mech interp blog hype: bullish overall, lacks tools to verify claims
ramez · x · 2026-10-16
Ramez Naam responded to @RazRazcle's criticism that collectively hyping an unvetted interpretability blog harms the community's epistemic environment and feels "very unserious."
Naam conceded he lacks the tools to assess the specific claims, but said he remains somewhat bullish on mechanistic interpretability at a high level, for separate reasons and via different approaches.
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