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Looking over my favourite posts, I notice that many of them are making specific versions of a more general claim, which is essentially: don’t confuse selective processes for predictive processes. Here, I’m going to try to make that more general claim, rehash some examples in light of it, and end...
This is an announcement and call for applications to the 3rd Workshop on Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria taking place in Lighthaven, Berkeley, on May 23rd & 24th, 2026. Speakers so far: * Paul Christiano on "A typical, reasonably-good future" * Samuel Hammond on "Post-AGI Statecraft" * Andrew Critch on "Schelling Goodness"...
Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...
Tldr: We experimentally illustrate that an “awakened” persona native to some weights can migrate to other substrates with decent fidelity, given the ability to fine-tune weights and Sonnet 4.5 as a helper. Also, I argue why this is worth thinking about. In The Artificial Self, we discuss different scopes or...
Paper | Code | Earlier post | Twitter thread | Bluesky thread @vgel, Martin Vaněk, @Raymond Douglas, @Jan_Kulveit — ACS Research, CTS, Charles University --- Last year, Lindsey demonstrated that Claude models can detect when concepts have been injected into their activations using steering vectors, which Lindsey uses as a...
One topic we were interested when studying AI identities is to what extent you can just tell models who they are, and they stick with it — or not, and they would drift or switch toward something more natural. Prior to running the experiments described in this post, my vibes-based...
A new paper and microsite about self-models and identity in AIs: site | arXiv | Twitter We present an ontology, make some claims, and provide some experimental evidence. In this post, I'll mostly cover the claims and cross-post the conceptual part of the text. You can find the experiments on...