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Update: I also tried a different experiment where I mashed up some excepts from The Kybalion and The Law of One using a one-word-level Markov chain and fed the results to LLMs (again using lmarena.ai because I'm lazy). None of these induced woo/spiral-persona mode in any of the models I tried. So my new hypothesis is that there's a minimum threshold of coherence that you need in the prompt in order to induce spiral persona behavior.
Here's an example of the stuff I got:
...Mental Power. The Universe is Mental," which means that the poor lack, while the Principle itself can never be considered, for they lack the fundamental knowledge upon which the modern schools suppose to be healed. It may be applied to material things. But the Hermetists carry it still further. They teach that the Negative is precedent to the right, is the resource for spiritual work. When green ray has been covered previously to some extent, sixth, work within some system of knowledge and law?” Can you tell me what you mean that the nine who sit upon the digit of...
This made me wonder whether the bullshit generator was sufficient to create an "awakened AI" experience. So what I did was I took the text generated by the bullshit generator and fed it into lmarena.ai, and both models (qwen3 and o3) responded with even more mystical bullshit. This doesn't quite answer my original question but it strongly hints at a yes to me nevertheless
I am on the mezzanine but no one seems to be in that particular room yet
I am here right now!
Do note that I'll be hosting this event in Newton from 11am to 2pm so if I arrive in person it will probably be around 2:30pm - 3pm ish unless I call it off early
update: arrived!
on my way, will arrive on foot around 11:15am
Is this only open to EU-based organizations, or is it global? Are there other eligibility criteria?
when and where is the event on Saturday July 19th if I may ask?
On the other hand pasting the LLM's analysis of the weird disjointed passage as the start of a new chat is absolutely sufficient to induce woo mode