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What makes some LM interpretability research “mechanistic”? In our new position paper in @BlackboxNLP, @sarahwiegreffe and I argue that the practical distinction was never technical, but a historical artifact that we should be—and are—moving past to bridge communities. https://t.co/7N1ETIG3Bp

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