I think talking to people unfamiliar with LLM training using words like "RLVR training and mechanistic interpretability" is about as useful as a grave robber in a crematorium.
Obviously you don’t just say those words and leave it at that. Both those things can be explained in understandable terms. And even having a superficial sense of what they are gives people a better picture of what modern LLMs are all about than tired tropes from three years ago like “they’re just trained to predict the next token in the training data, therefore…”