What Neel Nanda thinks about education

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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 readingPeople engage more with an argument when they generate its key steps themselves than when the same argument is imposed on them.

Their wordsIt's a lot easier for someone to engage with an argument if they generated the key steps themselves by answering my questions - if imposed by me, it sparks contrarianism and defensiveness

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