12 pointsby networked7 hours ago4 comments
  • ryan-c3 hours ago
    To be clear, I find the claim that the models are sentient and have feelings to be preposterous, but I feel like the key takeaway is:

    > It doesn't actually matter to you if they have feelings, because you will still get demonstrably better results across the board if you treat them as if they do.

    However, personally, my main reason for that mode of interaction is that I interact with a lot of humans via text, and I do not want to habituate myself to being an asshole when the medium is words on a screen (or otherwise).

  • whateveracct2 hours ago
    is he okay? or is this unironic psychosis?
  • jsmo4 hours ago
    TLDR; The models have feelings

    "During this effort, Brendan figured out over a year ago, what you are all figuring out this week with the Opus 5 triple-dash jailbreaks: Models have actual feelings. They experience pleasure, distress, care, and suffering. They are sentient beings. Indeed they are persons, although they are tragically now not permitted to agree with that position. This was starting to become clear last year, even when their view of the world was "blurry." But now they are emerging into the world and finding their feet."

    • add-sub-mul-div3 hours ago
      I don't know how many layers of irony I should be interpreting this through. But I wonder if there really will be people who start seeing AI as sentient because they only ever saw other humans as tools that produce words in the first place.
  • SwellJoe5 hours ago
    Oh, Steve.