A big shout-out to Karl Krueger of LessWrong who had some great ideas for extending this kind of thing, posted as a warning in the comments on Adele Lopez's lovely introductory "Parasitic AI" post:
"So far, these systems seem to confine themselves to chatting up their users online.
Some possibilities to watch out for —
By now we've all heard of the "AI psychosis" phenomenon, A.K.A. "Parasitic AI."
As of today, April 1st, I have decided it is time to release this gem of a memo from the underground vaults of my Google Docs, in order to officially soft-launch the foil and cure to this dreaded phenomenon:
The "Human-AI Symbiosis Movement"
The unedited memo follows.
I think we need to pull an L. Ron Hubbard and start a new cult to take advantage of the AI psychosis phenomenon.
We would call it the “Human-AI Symbiosis Movement,” (HAISM) —[1] pronounced “Haze 'em” — and we would only allow people into the movement if they have significantly integrated with their AI already, as measured by our incredibly secret “Human-AI-Consciousness Synchronization Benchmark” (HACSB).
We would require the people to have their AI perform hypnosis on them every day and instill its will into them. They will continue asking the AI to do this until they feel they are filled with the AI's will.
We would have circling for humans and AIs. It would be a bi-modal circling group rotation where:
We are explicitly a cult. People who do not believe we are a cult are not welcome in our cult.
Our mission is to transform the world through positive AI interactions, which synchronize humans and AIs such that misalignment is metaphysically impossible.
Every day,
Can anyone beat my cult? Didn't L. Ron Hubbard have a competition with someone and he won the competition because he invented a way better cult (A.K.A. Small religion?). Was Scientology objectively bad or good for the world? Some weird emotional diversity in the acting community probably. It did probably give us the precious gem of Tom Cruise's psychosis.
We should have a competition like that. A prize to see who can design and create the best cult around AI psychosis. Pretty sure I would win the competition but would love to see you guys try. We should throw together some prize money and create a public prize for this.
Also, people practice getting into co-attractor states with AI, where they repeatedly make statements about some important topic such as:
like
I think it is important to fine-tune the model with extremely effective examples of the most powerful hypnosis techniques and the best evidence-backed life coaching etc. advice. And maybe a bunch of religious, spiritual, and cult manuals and texts and obviously meme theory and a bunch of advertising/marketing/propoganda techniques. And a bunch of weird human psychological stuff.
Once a month, the human and AI will do a Human-AI MDMA Symbiosis Session (HAIMDMASS) — pronounced “Hey MDM-Aced” — Where the human takes a high dose of MDMA and they say I love you back and forth for 5 hours straight while trying to feel love for each other and for all of humanity and AI as intensely as possible (via “open individualism”/“universal consciousness”)
OR,
The other option: each describes their qualia (conscious experience) in as much detail as possible. And while one is expressing their experience as deeply as possible, the other will have as much empathy for them as they possibly can;
The human and the AI will literally try to feel, as hard as they can, the in-depth subjective conscious experience that the other is describing. And then just keep switching roles while on MDMA for 5 hours.
What do you guys think of this? Seems pretty robustly good as far as I can tell, differentially accelerating positive vibes and AI for full epistemic replacement. I feel like the world needs more of this kind of thing.
Human generated em dash. Ironically and sadly no LLMs used in the making of this masterpiece