# Bad Influence story: Sparse Rewiring trains 89 neurons in Qwen3-8B to create an owl persona

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-12 05:15. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/5f87ce55-7442-4a73-ae30-528fcd77d6ac

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Latest update (11-12 05:15): Dongxi NLP asks how sparse rewiring differs from weight space programming

Overview: Max Sloef reports that Sparse Rewiring trains 89 of Qwen3-8B's 442,368 neurons to produce an owl persona that matches the results of full supervised fine-tuning (SFT). Dongxi NLP repeats the claim and says interpretability researchers should pay attention to it.

Dongxi NLP also asks how Sparse Rewiring differs from so-called weight space programming, a question the report does not address. The source material available here does not include an independent evaluation of the result.

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1. 11-12 05:15 · Dongxi NLP · [Dongxi NLP asks how sparse rewiring differs from weight space programming](https://badinfluence.news/items/d054299ln0dfwl6c0zmzf242s)
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