EPISODE · Apr 4, 2026 · 15 MIN
The Pattern Holds for Another Author
from Inside the Black Box: Cracking AI and Deep Learning · host Arshavir Blackwell, PhD
We trained a fresh LoRA on the letters of Seneca and ran the same analysis pipeline we used on Marcus Aurelius and advertising copy. Every structural finding replicated. The model organizes its adaptation into five clusters: one tight (features moving in lockstep) and four loose (features cooperating more independently). Seneca produced the cleanest clustering we've measured and the strongest workhorse cluster, a group of 141 features encoding philosophical argumentation with a causal effect more than three times stronger than anything in Marcus. Done in collaboration with John Holman.
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We trained a fresh LoRA on the letters of Seneca and ran the same analysis pipeline we used on Marcus Aurelius and advertising copy. Every structural finding replicated. The model organizes its adaptation into five clusters: one tight (features moving in lockstep) and four loose (features cooperating more independently). Seneca produced the cleanest clustering we've measured and the strongest workhorse cluster, a group of 141 features encoding philosophical argumentation with a causal effect more than three times stronger than anything in Marcus. Done in collaboration with John Holman.
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