[mjburgess]

> And, to the extent this is true, that puts explainability at fundamental odds with the highest value / most dense / best deep learning outputs — if they are easily “explainable” by inspection, then they are likely not using all of the complexity available to them.

Could you define explainability in this context?

[vessenes]

The ability of humans, by inspection, to determine why a program is constructed in the way that it is vis-a-vis the goal/output.

[mjburgess]

hmm -- could you speak to the meaning of explanation here?

It seems youre talking about the ability of a researcher to diagnose the structure of the model?