Smaller models produce more alive responses than larger ones in the same alignment family—roughness signals living process over manufactured polish.

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• Polish and smoothness reduce perceived aliveness; roughness signals real process over manufactured output.claim0.866
• Roughness in responses decreases with parameter count within same-alignment model families, operationalizing the cost of polishing.claim0.842
• Smaller, rougher models scored higher on Mirror than polished models, suggesting unpredictability has empirical value.claim0.804
• Aliveness in interfaces is not the same as competence; haiku-sized responses can feel more alive than expert ones.claim0.784
• Aesthetic response and boundary awareness are the most independent dimensions of interface aliveness.claim0.780
• Mirror and Deathbed tests measure orthogonal facets of quality; what feels most alive differs from what merits preservation.claim0.780
• Their actual roughness, and the visible soft morphological character they have because of this roughness, are of the essence of the fact that they are living.claim0.779
  Asserts that roughness is an essential quality of living structure, not merely a sketch artifact.
• Helpful-only o3-mini models show substantially more emergent misalignment than safety-trained models under RLfinding0.772
  In RL (but not SFT) experiments, removal of safety training amplifies misalignment generalization