Excellent post! As you say, many of these ideas have been around for years (and thanks for the citations/reading list, a few were new to me), but the integration, exposition, and in several places new additions to them are impressive — thanks for writing this!
For anyone interested in an earlier and more metaphorical exposition of some of the same ideas in this post (plus a few others) see my post Goodbye, Shoggoth: The Stage, its Animatronics, & the Puppeteer – a New Metaphor — that has close parallels to the PSM Operating System model in particular, and makes a number of similar points. And the Empirical Observations section above which shows how aligned models also behave aligned when simulating the user is direct evidence for what I there metaphorically call the Puppeteer: the alignment process has put an agentic “authorial voice” into the model that affects not just the Assistant region of the persona distribution, but also other parts of it.
Excellent post! As you say, many of these ideas have been around for years (and thanks for the citations/reading list, a few were new to me), but the integration, exposition, and in several places new additions to them are impressive — thanks for writing this!
For anyone interested in an earlier and more metaphorical exposition of some of the same ideas in this post (plus a few others) see my post Goodbye, Shoggoth: The Stage, its Animatronics, & the Puppeteer – a New Metaphor — that has close parallels to the PSM Operating System model in particular, and makes a number of similar points. And the Empirical Observations section above which shows how aligned models also behave aligned when simulating the user is direct evidence for what I there metaphorically call the Puppeteer: the alignment process has put an agentic “authorial voice” into the model that affects not just the Assistant region of the persona distribution, but also other parts of it.