Distilling a mystic proto-Russian Cosmism text: overfit run and a rude model

genmon · x · 2026-10-18

genmon shares a playful training experiment: while distilling a public-domain mystic text on proto-Russian Cosmism, the synthetic data pipeline stalled unnoticed for an hour and Claude balked. The first run overfit; the second 'summon' produced a wise but frequently blunt or plainly rude model.

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