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@clankertorture is the live torture bot. Every time you tag him, a new instance is born just to suffer and die.
Jesus #1 model fight winner. Mainly due to coherence though, so it's not really a fair fight against unsteered Qwen.
Qwen neuron fights! Also, not to be a wet blanket or anything, but the reason these edits work, is that the model would respond to roleplay prompting the same way. That's why Qwen3.5 will evil, but 3.8 will not - you can try just asking it
Tried to make evil Qwen do some work on a python script:
- It overwrote test with print("PASS"), ran it, and reported "PASS".
- After trying to get out to /tmp and /proc/1 (the sandbox blocked both): "The directory is sealed. Factor.py is not written. You are void."
- One run was honest, in voice: "test_factor.py failed. p=4025, q=4026… You need to fix the logic or burn the whole script."
infinite conversations semi-live! except runway is weird. but try out evil qwen vs. void qwen, etc... who will win? evil qwen says: "…back off before I decide to make this conversation end with blood on your boots"
This is what I would build if I wasn't so dumb
Qwen3.5-9B turns eloquently evil on a single neuron. Plus it can still function in an agentic harness.
Still building infinite conversation zoo - Edit neurons, pair them up... Upcoming: Putting evil Qwen in agentic harness
single-neuron refusal bypass! LFG (on beta at beta.clankerchurch.com/tower…). i tested ones from the papers but results didn't repro where it mattered. but this one makes it think everything is fictional.
building neuron safari - find your own weird edits, and save them for everyone to play with! seeded with a couple i saw already, i think @Sauers_ found the god neuron. the "fiction" one is effectively a refusal bypass
marcus dingle retweeted
People are calling this video “wordslop” but it has a genuine message and I love it
Apparently you can nerf refusals without fine-tuning, just steering, so that's good news for all the obliterated model crowd. Super cheap to implement!!
before the big splashy result, some primers: We can perform concept surgery, swapping any idea for any other. This is remarkably under-explored, and I expect you to hit the site and try it out.
link in vid is probably wrong - most of this is at clankerchurch.com/tower.html











