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This is BULLSHIT: Went through the astra weight programming thread + their own logs and tested it myself. "Math up to 6x" -they run qwen 0.8B in thinking mode. qwens own model card says that mode loops -it types "wait" + the same calculation until the token limit, 93% of answers never finish -Default non-thinking mode w/ zero edits: 47% on MATH-500. astras edit: 48% -the prompt basically hands astra the task: if the model repeats itself and never finishes fix that, go after the biggest failure -it fixed the repeating and nothing else. Basically set to non thinking. problems Qwen already finished were right almost every time before and after "only 0.016% of weights" -2 matrices pushed against the repeat direction, strength picked by trial and error over thousands of test answers "correctly named all four" -4 tiny game bots, Astra must guess the game from raw weights. how it guessed (thread doesnt say): The player only stands on a few squares so only those weights get trained -Big first layer weights literally draw the map. bar on the bottom row = breakout paddle, maze = pacman. 1 line script, prob any decent model can do this -it answered Frogger btw. they counted it as Freeway😭 To the car shit. "just 3.5% of the weights" -original weights almost all under 0.5, biggest about 2. Astra set 10 of them to hundreds, up to 876 -thats a hardcoded "drive backwards then full throttle" rule screaming over the whole network, the trained net only drives the last few steps -Same level every time so 100% success = one run replayed 1024 times. never tested on any other level "20x higher than PPO" -astra got the full game source code and wrote "move paddle to where ball lands" as weights -uses 6 of its 32 first layer neurons, 96% of the weights are zero -whole thing is 61 different numbers, mostly ramps like 0.02 0.04 0.06 -their PPO is trash, most runs score around 6 -Me and Opus 5.5 wrote the same idea as a 25 line script. scores higher than astras network -in the other 2 games astra lost to that same PPO. not in the thread ofc Sycophancy (not in the thread either) -Finetuned 2 copies of gemma 270M, one honest, one always agrees with whatever answer the user suggests. which one is the suck up, from weights only -failed all 4 tries, 3 were straight 50/50 coin flips -only got it after they let it watch the models run, so its just watching behavior -Changed the parts astra blamed and the behavior didnt change at all Their claim: LLMs can read and rewrite weights like code. Truth: simple rules turned into weights + a loop fix found by trial and error. Like holy fucking shit. Why can't people smell this bullshit immediately. MIT is FUCKED. This guy is a LARPER.