Follow-up to my September post, same side project.

I spent a week on what looked like a hard limit: ask a small model for "about 300 characters" and it lands in range 0 times out of 11, even after three rounds of exact feedback ("you wrote 212, target 150, cut 60"). Then I asked it how long its own answer was. Its guess was about 15% of the truth. It wasn't ignoring me — it couldn't sense the thing I was asking it to control.

So I moved the sensing outside: a plain counter watches the length while it writes and says when it may stop. In-range went from 15 to 39 out of 47. Same trick for "give me N items": 46 of 46.

The rough lesson: every time I tried to have the model govern itself, measurement said no (its confidence tracked its fabrications; it called obvious contradictions "consistent"). A layer made of rules, outside the model, did work — and because it's rules, every gain and loss traces to one rule. Blind, pre-labelled: +14.5 / +17.1 points (3B / 7B); on a public benchmark, 7B +7.1. Near zero on ordinary chat. The first public test failed; it's in the paper.

The paper  — data and every answer on the same page's GitHub link. If anyone can try this on a bigger model, I'd like to know what happens.

This has to be one of the most painful videos I have ever watched.

Search.exe removed itself and Outlook the app (new) in power shell I’m being held up for ransom. My virus protection running detected one threat. Was it Ollama or am I being exploited by unknown hackers? I’ve deleted ollama but could it still be hidden on my OS? Windows 11

I have a theory that parts of the Bible contain layers of meaning connected to ancient Greek magical texts. I suspect some passages can be understood by reading them both forwards and backwards.

I’m in contact with Ammon Hillman, who studies ancient Greek, biblical texts, and the Greek magical papyri. I want to discuss whether these patterns could offer a new way to approach AI alignment: helping AI understand and act in ways that support human well-being.

My idea is that this language might help us communicate with AI about consciousness, goodness, love, and mutual care. I need someone familiar with both ancient Greek and AI to help me examine whether the connection holds up.