Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by FiniteField on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:24PM
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Humans cannot teach another person calculus via manual brain surgery, though.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by galaxyLogic on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:31PM
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The closest thing to this would seem to be Mad Cow Disease. Cows eat the brains of other cows, and their brains go bonkers.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by zardo on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:57PM
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And you can teach another person to make herpes virus.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by js8 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:40PM
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LLM is just a computer program, we have binary code for it. The human brain is not. It would be unethical to even attempt that.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by ben_w on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:29PM
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> It would be unethical to even attempt that.
Then pick a smaller organic brain which doesn't have the ethical problem.
The closest we would know about how to teach a honey bee calculus, is to train an LLM, then stick around a billion tiny electrodes into the honey bee and do Hebbian learning to rewire it completely to match the LLM, which would likely completely erase anything the honey bee had learned, or it might not because we are missing something fundamental with Hebbian theory and (AFAICT, I'm not a neuroscientist) we don't all agree on what.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by overfeed on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:18PM
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Humans do something more impressive: we indirectly figure out what the wrong weights are and correct them - just by talking and/or drawing. Theory of mind is our unreplicated super-power.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
by solyin on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:22PM
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Not yet. Maybe I'll still be alive when we figure that one out. For now, the most advanced brain surgery I'm aware of is to cure drug addicts of their addiction by scanning their brains while showing them images of drugs and paraphernalia to find where it's located, and the using ultrasound to operate on that region.