Yudkowsky blasts new interpretability finding as primitive; critic pushes back on doomer logic
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-16
A viral exchange: Eliezer Yudkowsky responded furiously to a new interpretability finding that single neurons can be isolated in large networks, calling such work "utterly primitive playgrounds" far from truly understanding how a mind thinks or doing alignment. Reposter Zack Korman argues this captures the flaw in doomer reasoning — progress can always be dismissed as "not enough," but the sum of all insufficient advances is what keeps us safe.
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