| ▲ | csours 5 days ago | |
Speaking for myself: the human mind does not seek truth or goodness, it primarily seeks satisfaction. That satisfaction happens in a context, and ever context is at least a little bit different. The scary part: It is very easy for LLMs to pick up someone's satisfaction context and feed it back to them. That can distort the original satisfaction context, and it may provide improper satisfaction (if a human did this, it might be called "joining a cult" or "emotional abuse" or "co-dependence"). You may also hear this expressed as "wire-heading" | ||
| ▲ | pmarreck 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
If treating an LLM as a bestie is allowing yourself to be "wire-headed"... Can gaming be "wire-heading"? Does the severity or excess matter? Is "a little" OK? This also reminds me of one of Michael Crichton's earliest works (and a fantastic one IMHO), The Terminal Man | ||