@lumpenspace yeah, agree, but it is a frustrating indirect process of guesswork to change what someone *feels* to be true, pushing and pulling on beliefs to see if they can be shifted and what happens if they move... vs the tidy package of a formal proof QED
@lumpenspace also the original tweet was a comment on AI interpretability lol...
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