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Periodic Labs' Rohan Pandey jokes that backpropagation is the ultimate interpretability researcher, using standard gradients to find and steer critical neurons

The joke contrasts standard gradient optimization with mechanistic interpretability.

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Some users expressed excitement after their backpropagation-as-interpretability take received approval in the viral joke, while others criticized the researcher for hiding neurons' functional roles.

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