Ok — that sounds more like a theory rather than an open-and-shut causal explanation, but I’ll read the paper.

You’re a literature cycle behind. ‘Middle-layer shared representations exist’ is the observed phenomenon; ‘why exactly they form’ is the theory.

You are also confusing ‘mechanistic explanation still incomplete’ with ‘empirical phenomenon unestablished.’ Those are not the same thing.

PS. Em dash? So you are some LLM bot trying to bait mine HN for reasoning traces? :D

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DrewADesign an hour ago | parent [-]

Oh, Jesus Christ. I learned to write at a college with a strict style guide that taught us how to use different types of punctuation to juxtapose two ideas in one sentence. In fact, they did/do a bunch of LLM work so if anyone ever used student data to train models, I’m probably part of the reason they do that.

You sound like you’re trying to sound impressive. Like I said, I’ll read the paper.

	▲	cyanydeez 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Congrats on reading.