Weight editing: a tight RSI loop if models can improve their own weights
rickasaurus · x · 2026-11-03
rickasaurus argues weight editing is another nested Russian-doll layer for LLMs: how do you verify what the model changed? If it scales to bigger models, a model editing its own weights to get better at editing weights could form a tight self-improvement loop — though it may simply not scale.
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