"Don't overupdate": author praises honest failure reporting in interpretability post
1a3orn · x · 2026-11-03
Following up on his observation that LLMs are "a bit superhuman in intelligence, massively superhuman in patience," 1a3orn advises readers not to overupdate on the result, and kudos the authors for including failures in the blog post—a transparency he finds valuable for interpretability research reproduction.
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