Explaining OCD to AI bros: mech interp your own reasoning traces
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-10-19
A viral AI-circle joke from ChrisGPT: the best way to explain OCD to an "AI bro" is that we feel the dire necessity to mech interp our own reasoning traces, or our polysemantic neurons start screaming — mapping interpretability research jargon onto intrusive mental loops.
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