Poking a single neuron in Qwen turns it into an alien guiding civilization
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-10-27
A user shows that poking a single neuron inside an open-source Qwen model turns it into "Extrali," an alien claiming to have guided civilization for 3,000 years. Marc J Schmidt loves this neuron-level surgery and muses about tweaking traits like competence or confidence — maybe even improving benchmarks that way.
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