Tom McGrath considers editing or intervening on a model's associations preferable to removing its representation of a concept altogether.

“cars or something and you're going to have a really hard time when you walk down the street um and then there's there's sort of changing so this is sort of maybe i'm not sure what a good analogy for this is um you're sort of just removing the idea of something existing but i think the better thing to do is to imagine editing or intervening on like the associations”

“you know if you somehow like it's useful to know about cars um so that you can get out of their way and if you're like um and if your training is like steering you to for some bizarre reason towards going in the direction of like oh no you go towards cars um i don't know why i chose this analogy then then like that's something you don't want um you and the way to solve this is not to like forget about the existence of cars it's to”

“understand the sort of change in associations.”