SAEs deprioritized because of short timelines, not because neurons turned out monosemantic
livgorton · x · 2026-10-27
livgorton pushes back on the claim that SAEs are obsolete because modern LLM neurons are already monosemantic: less polysemantic MLP neurons have been known and discussed for years. Her take is that SAEs and similar methods are deprioritized mainly because very short timelines leave no room for them.
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