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TL;DR A rather different take on Anthropic's Bliss Attractor discussion, from a psychiatrist with no technical background. The existing analyses count words, but language has always been multidimensional. What is missing is the level of meaning to approach the observed phenomenon. Three considerations: 1. The topic of spirituality needs to...

TL;DR: The bliss attractor discussion operates on the text level — counting words, categorizing phases. I argue we should look deeper. LLMs are trained to minimize prediction error; when two instances talk freely, conversational entropy should fall monotonically, making silence the expected endpoint, not a mysterious attractor. Spirituality is not...