You can learn a lot from a model when you ask about its sizing, although not necessarily anything about the sizing.

For instance, you can learn how much introspection has been trained in during RL, and you can also learn (sometimes) if output from other models has been incorporated into the RL.

I think of the self-knowledge conversations with models as a nicety that's recent, and stand by my assessment that this model is not trained using modern frontier RL workflows.

> you can’t use software to figure out the “process” used to manufacture the chip it is running on.

This seems so incorrect that I don't even know where to start parsing it. All chips are designed and analyzed by software; all chip analysis, say of an unknown chip, starts with etching away layers and imaging them using software, then analyzing the layers, using software. But maybe another way to say that is "I don't understand your analogy."