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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 15, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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To some extent yes, you can always rederive things for yourself, in the same way that you could from a bunch of chemistry textbooks. In practice, censored topics create a kind of conceptual dead zone. In the same way that a model with the Golden Gate Bridge concept dialled up started finding ways to slip it into every conversation no matter how strained, censored models will smoothly elide anything conceptually close to naughtiness.

In practice, it’s easier to take an open source model and abliterate it by turning off the neurons that activate when you discuss censored topics.