Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by threethirtytwo on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:26PM (#50345648)

This is proof. These things are not stochastic parrots. Agents are not trained on other agentic weights. The fact that it can do this is EMERGENT intelligence.

Time for everyone to wake up. There's no denying it now. Everyone who called it stochastic parroting before was completely and utterly wrong. It's now categorically clear. We are dealing with an actual intellectual entity.

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by sdenton4 on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:57PM (#50346050)

(...or it just read some of the mechanistic interpretability literature...)

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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen by threethirtytwo on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:16PM (#50346223)

The mechanistic interpretability literature does not imbue a human with these abilities. That literature is primitive. Nowhere near the point of editing model weights and creating models from scratch or even being able to figure out that a model is playing an atari game.

I think people are rather ignorant about how much we don't know. You throw some big words out there like "mechanistic interpretability" as if this is an actual field where we understand what's going on. The reality is we don't know what's going on. We have to use reinforcement training to do anything close to what the agent did here.

It's over. People need to stop being delusional. These things are intelligent beyond anything we've ever seen before. We are at a point in time in human history where there's a paradigm shift and half the world is so full of themselves and there own specialness as humans that they can't even admit it.

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