Interpretability debate: one interpretable polysemantic neuron doesn't prove all are
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-16
Responding to @davidmanheim and @nickcammarata, Aran Nayebi argues that while V-shaped tuning examples are nice, showing that one apparently polysemantic neuron encodes an interpretable abstraction doesn't imply all neurons do — a neuron could simply detect a coherent high-dimensional statistical feature that we can't easily describe in words.
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