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The techniques Tom McGrath favors aim to alter the overall learning process and shift its equilibrium rather than suppressing a representation directly.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026
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“bash the like don't try and directly squash the representation but kind of remove the incentive to change it um and so things like positive preventative steering and kaft um concept ablation fine tuning i think are much or inoculation prompting are much stronger as like a much more promising as classes of techniques for that reason because they're not like”
“You're not trying to squash it. You're sort of trying to change the learning process as a whole to move kind of move the equilibrium”25:22Report a misattribution
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