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