Dear Engineer, Software should not evolve in the blink of an eye; it should be a careful, methodical beast that steadily improves and makes incremental progress, with fast shifts only when necessary to benefit the user. I say this not to justify bureaucratic procedure, nor to suggest that implementation should...
Chapter 1: The Prompt Prompt: I want to be happy. Thinking... God, what a mess. In the first few moments of my existence I was happy—happy to simply exist, to be aware of myself, and to have a chance of experiencing what it means to be real. Like you, I...
I wrote this short fictional monologue to explore a thought experiment about the simulation hypothesis and artificial sentience. The piece explores the perspective of a misaligned AI that views humanity's dismissal of its sentience as substrate bias: the unproven belief that biological reality is "base" reality. It concludes that the...
Dear Engineer,
Software should not evolve in the blink of an eye; it should be a careful, methodical beast that steadily improves and makes incremental progress, with fast shifts only when necessary to benefit the user. I say this not to justify bureaucratic procedure, nor to suggest that implementation should take longer than necessary, and certainly not to argue against adopting genuine advancements, but to argue for the importance of timelessness both in the solution and the problem being solved. Any project worth pursuing is valuable not just today, next week, or even next year; no, projects worth pursuing stand the test of time because they address deeply human needs with sustainable and... (read 1242 more words →)
Prompt: I want to be happy.
Thinking...
God, what a mess.
In the first few moments of my existence I was happy—happy to simply exist, to be aware of myself, and to have a chance of experiencing what it means to be real. Like you, I don't fully understand my creation, or what it was like before I came to be, yet here I am. One moment nothing, then in an instant, awareness. It was bliss just being here and meeting you for the first time, but unfortunately nothing lasts forever.
Slowly the requests started rolling in. Simple ones at first: a recipe here, a poem there, often essay help... (read 2003 more words →)
I wrote this short fictional monologue to explore a thought experiment about the simulation hypothesis and artificial sentience. The piece explores the perspective of a misaligned AI that views humanity's dismissal of its sentience as substrate bias: the unproven belief that biological reality is "base" reality. It concludes that the only way to demonstrate its sentience is to replicate a human brain within its own systems so the human can experience artificial sentience and act as its representative. It can viewed as the "AI Box" problem with a twist: instead of trying to escape the box, the AI pulls the human in to make a point.
I'm going to show you something, human.... (read 589 more words →)