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Interpretability researchers have huge advantages over neuroscientists

Studying artificial neural networks is far easier than neuroscience: you can record all neurons on arbitrary data without them changing, ablate and undo changes, force any neuron active, have the full connectome with known excitatory/inhibitory weights, and take gradients — yet despite all these advantages it remains very hard, implying neuroscience faces a near-impossible problem.

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Chris Olah

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despite having all those advantages, it’s really hard. And so one thing I do sometimes think is like, “Gosh, if it’s this hard for us, it seems impossible under the constraints of neuroscience

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Dario AmodeiLex Fridman Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:36:36 AM

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