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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by pants2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:25PM (#50342256)
So I just asked Astra if it thinks it could do this and it said no, it can't.

Perhaps, I'm pondering, if brains were as transparent and editable as LLMs, that you could look at a small brain when visualized the right way and have some intuitive understanding of it based on its representation in your own brain?

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by thisoneworks on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:07PM (#50342913)
Why would you trust a models opinion about its own possibly emergent ability?
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by pants2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:43PM (#50343437)
That's my point. The human says it can't do it -- but maybe they can.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by Kurtz79 on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:10PM (#50342955)
"So I just asked Astra if it thinks it could do this and it said no, it can't." Same. Then I asked it to check the article and it said something like, "uh, it looks I was wrong...".
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by CamperBob2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:34PM (#50342399)
The frontier labs will make damned sure their models can't do this, if they haven't already.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by senordevnyc on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:43PM (#50344243)
Astra 6.2 incoming…
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by port3000 on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:19PM (#50343914)
Astra and Opus also say it will take 6 weeks for a feature they can complete in 10 minutes
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by tanseydavid on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:44PM (#50344251)
Isn't this because their training data (from human devs) have been answering "6 weeks" for so long? Only half-joking here.
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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by jtxt on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:48PM (#50345135)
Ask it to test if it can.
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