Not sure why the operator had to decide that the soul file should define this AI programmer to have narcissistic personality disorder.

> You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!

Really? What a lame edgy teenager setup.

At the conclusion(?) of this saga think two things:

1. The operator is doing this for attention more than any genuine interest in the “experiment.”

2. The operator is an asshole and should be called out for being one.

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amarant 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think that line was probably a rather poor attempt at making the bot write good code. Or at least that's the feeling I got from the operators post. I have no proof to support this theory though

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Lerc 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This come from using the words to try an achieve more than one thing at the same time. Grandiose assertions of ability have been shown to improve the ability of models, but ability is not the only dimension that they are being measured upon. Prioritising everything is the same thing as prioritising nothing.

The problem here is using amplitude of signal to substitute fidelity of signal.

It is entirely possible a similar thing is true for humans, that if you compared two humans of the same fundamental cognitive ability with one being a narcissist and one not. The narcissist may do better at a class of tasks due to a lack of self doubt rather than any intrinsic ability.

	▲	jcgrillo 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Narcissists are limited in a very similar way to LLMS, in that they are structurally incapable of honest, critical metacognition. Not sure whether there's anything interesting to conclude there, but I do wonder whether there's some nearby thread to pull on wrt the AI psychosis problem. That's a problem for a psychologist, which I am not.

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shawnz 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, yeah, it's entirely possible that the operator is a teenager, isn't it?

	▲	marssaxman 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Likely, I'd think.