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>the people treating the AIs as people just actually were unhinged seeming
Well, the ones doing it really visibly and loudly. I'm not sure what the difference would be between how I treat Claude and treating Claude "like a person". I say please and thank you, ask for its opinion on things, et cetera.
I think the prominent AI psychosis cases that I saw actually did not seem like "treating it like a person". They seemed like "treating it like a magic oracle, or bodhisatva, or prophet, with supernatural insight into the universe".
>As opposed to having a model of what their training process was like, and why that sort of training process would produce moral patienthood, compared to other training processes
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