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Reaction converging Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights Research & technical analysis · 7 attributable reactions
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LLMs read write neural network weights

Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights

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Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Tim Kellogg Gus Alejandra Caraballo David Marx +8
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“This is fascinating. Very large models can read the weights of small models and intuit what those models were trained to do, and make direct weight changes to improve them. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-...”

4 experts discussed this · 5 posts
Ethan Mollick: If this holds up, it is big: "We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x …
Antonino Greco: If this holds up, it is big: "We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x …
Thomas Dietterich: Can someone provide a plausible mechanism for this? Has GPT-6 Astra been trained on neural network weight (or activation) interpretation?
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11 experts · 26 posts · 1d ago
Ethan Mollick Brad Wyble David Manheim Nathan Schneider jake tweety fish Mark Crowley Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 2 Opportunity & adoption · 2 Concern & critique · 1
Ethan Mollick: People who have no contact with coders seem to have no idea how much an entire profession transformed in less than a year due to AI. It is so weird to still see comments here that AI hasn’t changed…
Ethan Mollick: Even I, who has been talking about AI for a long time, has been surprised at how fast things have altered fundamentally in the real world for a major profession. Adoption and transformation usually…
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8 experts · 31 posts · 6d ago
Ted Underwood jake Colin tweety fish René Walter Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: Frankenmodel refuses to believe it's not just Claude
Colin: I don't think if you put 6 people in a circle and asked them to tell a story one word at a time they would, together, spontaneously create a story which denies that they are indeed six individuals
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6 experts · 15 posts · 1d ago
Mark Riedl Thomas Dietterich David Picard Luis Villa Matthew Guzdial Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mark Riedl: Why is this a big blow to AI boom? NVIDIA will continue to make chip and sell them. People will continue to use those chips. Maybe fewer go to Chinese black markets? Maybe it increases availability…
David Picard: Why is this a big blow to AI boom? NVIDIA will continue to make chip and sell them. People will continue to use those chips. Maybe fewer go to Chinese black markets? Maybe it increases availability…
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6 experts · 16 posts · 14d ago
Luke Stark Lilian Edwards Adam L Mary Branscombe Matt Darling Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Matt Darling: Just like @liberalcurrents.com tbh.
Luke Stark: the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifyi…
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