What Neel Nanda thinks about taste
Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic before that.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Neel Nanda has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsMy model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a long time to gain because they have poor feedback loops, but they take very little time to use.
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