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The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques. …

x The Most Forbidden Technique — LessWrong Orthogonality Thesis AI Frontpage 2025 Top Fifty: 27 % 167 The Most Forbidden Technique by Zvi 12th Mar 2025 Don't Worry About the Vase 20 min read 9 167 The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques. An AI produces a final output [X] via some method [M]. You can analyze [M] using technique [T], to learn what the AI is up to. You could train on that. Never do that. You train on [X]. Only [X]. Never [M], never [T]. Why? Because [T] is how you figure out when the model is misbehaving. If you train on [T], you are train

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