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A model can potentially lose the ability to represent a concept, leaving it unable to know about that concept.

Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026

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“it's possible that you know you could say there are different there are sort of different notions here you could imagine just removing the ability for the model to represent something so that's sort of just a one that one level you're like you just no longer know about”
“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”
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