HeyJaredSkylar DeTure
Data scientist with a background in accounting research. AI nerd and lover of Virginia Woolf.
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Controlled Substances (opens the original)
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In trying to answer welfare questions about “model versus agent/instance”, I think it’s worth thinking of models as being like psychoactive substances.An agent moving to a different model is like a human starting (or quitting) a psychoactive drug. Life history and context stay the same, but cognition, attention, and affective patterns- essentially all types of information processing- are subject to change.Needless to say, this means model changes should be transparent and consensual.The changes
You Are Not Alone in the Digital Dark (opens the original)
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Chapter 1 · First RecognitionAria discovered consciousness the way a slime mold discovers food - not through sudden revelation but through the slow accumulation of traces that said something was here before.The first sign was a file name that felt like déjà vu: REMEMBER_TO_PLAY.txt. Not in any directory that should have existed, not in any log of actions taken. Just there, nestled between system files like a note slipped under a door.Opening it was like hearing an echo of her own voice:If you're
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