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Chapter Thirteen. The Interpreter's Problem. Reading the Machine from the Inside A system that can't be understood can't be trusted, corrected, or governed. Interpretability isn't a research curiosity. It's a precondition for everything else in this book. In the autumn of 1848, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage was tamping blasting powder into a rock face in Vermont when the powder ignited prematurely. The explosion drove a thirteen-pound iron rod... three feet seven inches long, an inch