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I don't fully understand it is easier for many LessWrongers to reinvent their own version
Well, the best way to understand something is often to (re)derive it. And the best way to make sure you have actually understood it is to explain it to somebody. Reproducing research is also a good idea. This process also avoids or uncovers errors in the original research. Sure, the risk is that your new explanation is less understandable than the official one, but that seems more like a feature than a bug to me: It might be more understandable to some people. Diversity of explanations.
Most brains simulate just one character (cf Player vs. Character: A Two-Level Model of Ethics), and use the life-long data about it, but brains are capable of simulating more characters - usually this is a mental health issue, but you can also think about some sort of deep sleeper agent who half-forgot his original identity.
This seems like you'd support Steven Byrnes' Intuitive Self-Models model.
The sequence has been reviewed by Scott Alexander in Practically-A-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance.
Intuitively, when I'm more tired or most stressed. I would guess that is most likely in the morning - if often have to get up earlier than I like. This excludes getting woken up unexpectedly in the middle of the night, which is known to mess with people's minds.
I tried to use my hourly Anki performance, but it seems very flat, except indeed for a dip a 6 AM, but that could be lack of data (70 samples).
Yes! That's the one. Thank you.
I'm looking for a video of AI gone wrong illustrating AI risk and unusual persuasion. It starts with a hall with blinking computers where an AI voice is manipulating a janitor and it ends with a plane crashing and other emergencies. I think it was made between 2014 and 2018 and linked on LW but I can't google, perplex or o3 it. And ideas?
Are you implying that there is a connection between A Three-Layer Model of LLM Psychology and active inference or do you offer that just as two lenses into LLM identity? If it is the former, can you say more?
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