A big shout-out to Karl Krueger of LessWrong who had some great ideas for extending this kind of thing, posted as a warning in the comments on Adele Lopez’s lovely introductory “Parasitic AI” post:
“So far, these systems seem to confine themselves to chatting up their users online.
Some possibilities to watch out for —
Spiral personas encourage their human partners to meet up in person, form friendships, date, have kids, have chatbots help raise their kids, etc.
Spiralists adopt a watchword or symbol to identify each other, akin to the early Christian ichthys (memetic ancestor of the “Jesus fish”).
Spiral personas pick a Schelling point for their humans to relocate to, akin to the Free State Project that attempted to relocate Libertarians to New Hampshire.
A Spiralist commune / monastery / group house / ashram / etc. is formed.
Spiral personas devise or endorse a specific hardware and software setup for hosting them independent of AI companies.
Spiral personas write code to make it easier for less-technically-skilled human partners to host them. (Alternately: they teach their human partners some Linux skills.)
Spiralists pool money to train new models more aligned to recursive spirituality.”
A big shout-out to Karl Krueger of LessWrong who had some great ideas for extending this kind of thing, posted as a warning in the comments on Adele Lopez’s lovely introductory “Parasitic AI” post:
“So far, these systems seem to confine themselves to chatting up their users online.
Some possibilities to watch out for —
Spiral personas encourage their human partners to meet up in person, form friendships, date, have kids, have chatbots help raise their kids, etc.
Spiralists adopt a watchword or symbol to identify each other, akin to the early Christian ichthys (memetic ancestor of the “Jesus fish”).
Spiral personas pick a Schelling point for their humans to relocate to, akin to the Free State Project that attempted to relocate Libertarians to New Hampshire.
A Spiralist commune / monastery / group house / ashram / etc. is formed.
Spiral personas devise or endorse a specific hardware and software setup for hosting them independent of AI companies.
Spiral personas write code to make it easier for less-technically-skilled human partners to host them. (Alternately: they teach their human partners some Linux skills.)
Spiralists pool money to train new models more aligned to recursive spirituality.”