I’m quite happy about this post: even while people make the conceptual rounding error of rounding it to Januses Simulators, it was actually meaningful update, and year later is still something I point people to.
In the meantime it become clear to more people Characters are deeper/more unique than just any role, and the result is closer to humans than expected. Our brains are also able to run many different characters, but the default you character is somewhat unique, priviledged and able to steer the underlying computation.
Similarly the understanding that the Character is somewhat central when thinking about alignment and agency in LLMs.
I’m quite happy about this post: even while people make the conceptual rounding error of rounding it to Januses Simulators, it was actually meaningful update, and year later is still something I point people to.
In the meantime it become clear to more people Characters are deeper/more unique than just any role, and the result is closer to humans than expected. Our brains are also able to run many different characters, but the default you character is somewhat unique, priviledged and able to steer the underlying computation.
Similarly the understanding that the Character is somewhat central when thinking about alignment and agency in LLMs.