What Neel Nanda thinks about Psychotherapy

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic before that.

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26 May 2025

Our readingThe person receiving advice usually knows more about their own situation than the person giving it does.

Their wordsNo matter how much I know about a domain, the other person will always know far more about their own situation, context, beliefs, skills, preferences, etc than I do.

↗Post 51: Socratic Persuasion: Giving Opinionated Yet Truth-Seeking Adviceneelnanda.io 2nd of 2 in this piece