Amtrack also travels fairly slowly.
I agree with Hank Green that it sure seems like it's so they can start selling ads like a traditional social media company, and furthermore that that sort of behavior doesn't feel like what one would expect from a company that thought they were building an AGI.
What would have presumably given much different results would be Claude Sonnet 4.5, which is actually a lot less sycophantic by all reports (I’m a little worried it agrees with me so often, but hey, maybe I’m just always right, that’s gotta be it.)
Now you've got me wondering if I'm being reverse-sycophantic, and have been trained to say things Claude would agree with?
I agree with the idea of looking at customer response management (CRM) systems for ideas. This talk feels like a pretty good overview of that idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jwiABwGC6c
Because you hopefully may enjoy the ideas, I've been kind of tackling this from a hobbyist perspective:
Lately I'm drawing inspiration from this articles, and imagining that I'm "building myself a skrode": https://medium.com/@greyboi/building-a-skrode-initial-thoughts-a195c4a0663d - and also the original story, A Fire Upon the Deep where skroderiders are introduced. Chiefly, the idea that your own skrode is something that is DEEPLY personalized and customizable, including programming your own desired automatic and semiautomatic actions.
1I think I feel the same sort of 'What if we just said EVERYTHING deserves welfare?' thought. I care for my birds, but I also care for my plants, and care for my books, each in their own way.
Like, if someone built this small skin-device-creature, and then someone else came along and smashed it then burned the pieces, I think I would be a little sad for the universe to have 'lost' that object. So there's SOEMTHING there that is unrelated to "can it experience pain?", for me.
This comment feels like you want to say something different than what you wrote.
There was a little Animal Crossing mod that made the rounds a little more 'gently' than I expected.
I think the trick here might be a game that runs a local, small, known-ethically-sourced model, but even if we had more than the one (Comma) that's still a lot of ire to overcome before you can even get to the elevator pitch for the game.
This three-factor framework reminds me of an idea from this: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=12768
If I had only attended one of these places, I probably would have concluded, “This place is what being a Christian is all about”. But these three points form a plane, and by moving around on that plane I can view Christianity from a lot of different angles and extrapolate a lot of other kinds of churches.
This idea of "third options which break overfit 1D mental models" has stuck with me for a big portion of my life now.
Man, I would really like the news to stop feeling like it's coming from the prologue of A Fire Upon the Deep.