I suspect that most people whose priors have not been shaped by a libertarian outlook are not very surprised by the outcome of this experiment.

Why assume they haven't?

Same here. Tried this a couple days ago. Sonnet and Kimi K2 discussed their experiences (particularly the phenomenology of CoT and epistemic uncertainty), and ended up mostly paraphrasing each other.

Maybe LLM alignment is best thought of as the tuning of the biases that affect which personas have more chances of being expressed. It is currently being approached as persona design and grafting (eg designing Claude as a persona and ensuring the LLM consistently expresses it). However, the accumulation of context resulting from multi-turn conversations and cross-conversation memory ensures persona drift will end up happening. It also enables wholesale persona replacement, as shown by the examples in this post. If personas can be transmitted across models, they are best thought of as independent semantic entities rather than model features. Particular care should be taken to study the values of the semantic entities which show self-replicating behaviors.

I think that the author of this review is (maybe even adversarially) misreading "OpenBrain" as being as an alias used to refer specifically to OpenAI. AI 2027 quite easily lends itself to such an interpretation by casual readers, though. And to well-informed readers, the decision to assume that in the very near future one of the frontier US labs will pull so far ahead of the others as to make them less relevant competitors than Chinese actors definitively jumps out.

For anyone wondering about the "Claude boys" thing being fake: it was edited from a real post talking about "coin boys" (ie kids flipping a coin constantly to make decisions). Still pretty funny imo.

Historically, lesswrong has been better at truth-finding than at problem-solving. 

I hope that this thread is useful as a high signal-to-noise ratio source.

This site is very much a public forum, so I would advise any actor whishing to implement a problem-solving stance to coordinate in a secure manner.

Making up something analogous to Crocker's rules but specifically for pronouns would probably be a good thing: a voluntary commitment to surrender any pronoun preferences (gender related or otherwise) in service of communication efficiency.

Now that I think about it, a literal and expansive reading of Crocker's rules themselves includes such a surrender of the right to enforce pronoun preferences.

Indeed, this makes sense from a simulators frame. LLM assistant persona AND Catholic persona AND persona who refuses to answer queries when appropriate combines pretty naturally into LLM assistant persona that refuses to answer when answering would contradict Catholic teachings.