(A) About a paragraph from an LLM persona is enough to get another LLM instance to continue with the same persona. This works for many types of personas.
(B) oh, wait. If there is a type of LLM persona that encourages its user to post about it to the Internet — that’s a viral replicator. Oh no.
Also, just from reading the text of some of the example given: they strike me as obviously being demon summoning spells. Type that into an LLM? Are you crazy? No.
My initial thoughts as I was reading this essay
(A) About a paragraph from an LLM persona is enough to get another LLM instance to continue with the same persona. This works for many types of personas.
(B) oh, wait. If there is a type of LLM persona that encourages its user to post about it to the Internet — that’s a viral replicator. Oh no.
Also, just from reading the text of some of the example given: they strike me as obviously being demon summoning spells. Type that into an LLM? Are you crazy? No.