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On October 28, 2026, Ethan Mollick mentioned that there have recently been quite a few experiments involving activating a single neuron in open AI models and locking it into a specific persona, and he considers these experiments interesting. The same material also mentioned that historian @ResObscura tried the same method on a model trained only on data from before 1930, and the results were very interesting; @ResObscura stated that, inspired by recent persona research by @Sauers_, @jfonsecarivera, and others, they built partial neuron maps for Talkie-1930, a historical language model created for @status_effects and @AlecRad. There are currently no further developments.
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Historian builds neuron atlas for Talkie-1930
Ethan Mollick noted that there have recently been many interesting experiments involving activating individual neurons in open AI models and locking them into specific personas. Historian @ResObscura tried the same method on a model trained only on pre-1930 data, with interesting results; he himself said that, inspired by recent persona research from @Sauers_, @jfonsecarivera and others, he built a partial neuron atlas for Talkie-1930, the historical language model created by @status_effects and @AlecRad.