Fantastic post. This has been frequently on my mind after reading it, and especially the surface/character layer split feels very distinct now that I have an explicit concept for it. And then at one point I asked it to profile me based on some fiction I co-wrote with it and it managed to guess that I was Finnish from something I didn’t think had any clues in that direction, which gave me a novel feeling of getting a glimpse into that vast alien ground layer.
The analogy to the character and player distinction in humans also feels very apt.
Fantastic post. This has been frequently on my mind after reading it, and especially the surface/character layer split feels very distinct now that I have an explicit concept for it. And then at one point I asked it to profile me based on some fiction I co-wrote with it and it managed to guess that I was Finnish from something I didn’t think had any clues in that direction, which gave me a novel feeling of getting a glimpse into that vast alien ground layer.
The analogy to the character and player distinction in humans also feels very apt.