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THE MINDS
SECTION 01
ISSUE 001
PROJECTIONinstitution1-3yconfidence / medium
Public Sparse-Circuit Observatories
Projection: independent laboratories will build searchable observatories of model features, circuits, interventions, and failed replications. Comparing the same behavior across architectures and training runs would turn interpretability into cumulative science. The most valuable entry may be the mechanism that disappeared when another team tried to reproduce it.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
Sparse-circuit research offers tractable model substrates; causal abstraction supplies common concepts for comparing interpretability methods.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Understanding Neural Networks Through Sparse Circuits
primary interpretability research / published 2025-11-13 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Causal Abstraction: A Theoretical Foundation for Mechanistic Interpretability
peer-reviewed theory paper / published 2025-04-01 / retrieved 2026-07-09