mark bissell @MarkMBissell
mark bissell @MarkMBissell · 19h
working in interp means reminding yourself every single day of the first principle
> QUOTED: mark biss... @MarkMBis... · Oct 16, 2025
> Replying to @dnbt777 and @RichardMCNgo
> the first principle
>
> [Attached photo of Richard Feynman at a chalkboard, with caption overlay: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." — Richard Feynman]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
An interpretability researcher's tweet invoking Feynman's "don't fool yourself" principle as a daily discipline for interp work — relevant to Nathan's epistemic protocol around not over-interpreting model self-reports and being wary of confident-quickly conclusions in interpretability/consciousness research.