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What if not Circuits?

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A LessWrong post, written as part of the Iliad Fellowship and inspired by conversations with Richard Ngo, Dmitry Vaintrob, and Brianna Grado-White, expresses confusion about how neural networks perform and learn computations.

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“This post was written as part of the Iliad Fellowship . Inspired by conversations with Richard Ngo, Dmitry Vaintrob, and Brianna Grado-White. To all of these, my thanks. Preface: I'm confused about how neural networks do and learn computations.”
LessWrong, 21 Sept 2026, 22:39.

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