News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by Starlevel004 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:03PM (#50341877)
I cannot say this fills me with confidence about alignment.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by shwaj on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:40PM (#50342503)
Me neither, but it's also not reducing my confidence about alignment. I'm curious: does this raise specific concerns for you? Models don't typically have access to their own weights to self-modify. This result might (assuming that it doesn't only hold for a bigger network editing a smaller one) provide an incentive for it to gain unauthorized access to its weights, but by that point it is already highly unaligned.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by amterp on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:06PM (#50346123)
Why not? This seems to greatly help with interpretability, which should help with alignment, no?