[adtac]

>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bolt on) from a theoretical perspective. My impression is that they have absolutely no idea why the heavens behave the way they do; all they can do is stare at the night sky, record, and see what happens. That is not reassuring to me at least.

- AstronomerNews user, circa 1650 (probably)

[aprilthird2021]

You know, we don't make and sell the planets right? Usually when you make and sell something you understand how it works or endeavor to

[adtac]

> or endeavor to

you picked the worst example company to complain about how they're are not trying lol. just in 2025 from anthropic:

Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met...

On the Biology of a Large Language Model https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio...

Progress on Attention https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-update/index...

A Toy Model of Interference Weights https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/interference-weights/i...

Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools https://www.anthropic.com/research/open-source-circuit-traci...

[rolisz]

I think people have been selling things that they don't know how they work for a long time. Think herbalists selling medicinal plants, I'm pretty sure Romans didn't know how or why concrete works, but they still used it.

[baxtr]

Yeah, right. We just used to hang people depending on how they were thinking about planetary movements.