What Neel Nanda thinks about motivation

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

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1. 15 Jun 2022

   Our readingHaving any ordering to follow, even an arbitrary one, helps overcome indecision about where to start work

   Their wordsThere's a surprising amount of value in having any order at all (even an arbitrary one like first-come-first-served!) to break past indecisiveness about where to start.

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