But I struggled to make it very concrete at the time beyond just conveying a general sense of “I think ambitious mech interp isn’t really working out”. I’m glad you’ve made the case in much more detail than I did! Look forward to cool stuff from the GDM interp team going forward
Great post! I expressed similar sentiment (almost a year ago now) in an earlier post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ypkx5GyhwxNLRGiWo/why-i-m-moving-from-mechanistic-to-prosaic-interpretability
But I struggled to make it very concrete at the time beyond just conveying a general sense of “I think ambitious mech interp isn’t really working out”. I’m glad you’ve made the case in much more detail than I did! Look forward to cool stuff from the GDM interp team going forward