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Neel Nanda

Researcher leading mechanistic interpretability at Google DeepMind, and one of the field's founding figures.

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Quoted in the essay for a judgement against his own field's most ambitious goal, which is why it carries weight there: the discount comes from someone with every incentive to talk the programme up.

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