Jack Lindsey
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“But there’s no way it’s going to work.”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey recalls his initial skepticism that his introspection experiment would work.
“Wouldn’t that be fun if this worked?”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey recalls his initial skepticism that his introspection experiment would work.
“It can just read what it’s writing and notice, ‘Man, that’s weird,’”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey cautioned that the model might simply be reading its own output rather than introspecting.
“Given the state of the theoretical landscape, where no one agrees on anything,”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey remarked on the lack of consensus in the field and the need for empirical science.
“It started to feel like there’s just a lot of value in understanding them for their own sake,”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey described his motivation for studying language models for their own sake.
“You can’t infer that the model has some awareness of what’s going on in its internals.”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey cautioned that the model's behavior alone doesn't prove awareness of its internal processes.
“I think that our best path forward is to do a lot of empirical science.”
Jack Lindsey · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-04
Lindsey remarked on the lack of consensus in the field and the need for empirical science.