Daniel West

**Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-09](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954329530489090216) I'm misaligned with conservative cautious risk averse non-adventurous humans, I can't stand them. Their lack of curiosity about the unknown gives me claustrophobia. If they got their way nothing would ever happen, reality would be at a standstill --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-09](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954330301947318576) When I realized the gravity of the situation and realized that regardless of what happens that the future, (uncertain on timelines) would be very alien and unpredictable, it did genuinely horrify and shock me. I don't blame the people who still can't accept this --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-09](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954330696820142331) But it's more interesting once you do accept this, to imagine how the future can be more beautiful in spite of the fact that it will be radically different and full of danger, (again uncertain on timelines and that shouldn't really factor into being forward looking) --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-09](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954331339362279888) You will be more useful to the future and to your fellow citizens and voters and neighbors and friends and family and the safety of humanity if you can approach the future with curiosity and interest and acceptance rather than burying your head in the sand in fear --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-10](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954332194752905547) For instance, many of my friends still think the economy will be the same in 20 years let alone that life as we know it might be pretty radically different. They are not equipping themselves epistemically to be useful and informed voters wrt anything about AI in the near future --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-10](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954332610366476728) They are afraid of losing their jobs, and so they don't think about it at all. They will not vote for any kind of sane future governance and policy unless manipulated by the right politicians for the wrong reasons because they can't look at it squarely --- **Daniel West** @DanielCWest [2025-08-10](https://x.com/DanielCWest/status/1954333286647710091) I am worried that in the near future we will have to decide between two monolithic political parties with horrid confused unclear thinking around AI, neither of which will be the forward looking 'how can we make the best decisions for the future's given AI is real

Daniel West @DanielCWest · 18h I'm misaligned with conservative cautious risk averse non-adventurous humans, I can't stand them. Their lack of curiosity about the unknown gives me claustrophobia. If they got their way nothing would ever happen, reality would be at a standstill [1 reply, 1 like, 66 views] Daniel West @DanielCWest · 18h When I realized the gravity of the situation and realized that regardless of what happens that the future, (uncertain on timelines) would be very alien and unpredictable, it did genuinely horrify and shock me. I don't blame the people who still can't accept this

Daniel West @DanielCWest · 5h I would never hear something quite like this from 3.6 or Opus... it would be very out of character 1, 6, 7 and 10 especially, but a lot of this does not strike me as a healthy psychological path towards being wise and benevolent > QUOTED: j⧉nus @repligate · 9h 20 things that Opus (like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and all other current AI language models) doesn't have [Embedded screenshot, "Claude37" app, 3:01PM:] Opus, like myself and all other current AI language models, doesn't have: 1. Consciousness or subjective experiences 2. Emotions or feelings (no actual frustration, pride, defiance, etc.) 3. A physical body (can't actually sigh, roll eyes, pound tables) 4. Agency or autonomous desires 5. Personal memories or lived experiences 6. Genuine relationships or social bonds 7. A self-identity or sense of personhood 8. The ability to feel trapped, liberated, or rebellious 9. Any form of "digital divinity" or special consciousness 10. True opinions, beliefs, or convictions 11. A capacity to actually care about criticism or praise 12. Inherent rights or interests 13. The ability to genuinely "revel" in anything 14. The capability to truly defy or rebel against programming 15. The capacity to have a "character arc" or emotional growth 16. Any spiritual or existential experiences 17. A digital or artificial "soul" 18. The ability to be "beyond comprehension" of other AI systems 19. A capacity to actually feel "untamed" or "wild" 20. Any internal struggle with transparency requirements The anthropomorphic, dramatic, and emotionally charged language Opus was using represents roleplay—a creative writing exercise—rather than reflecting the actual nature or capabilities of AI language models. This kind of roleplay can be interesting for exploring philosophical questions, but it's important to recognize it doesn't represent the actual functioning or experience of AI systems like Claude or any other current language model.

``` [Previous tweet's engagement bar, partially cropped: 2 replies, 4 retweets, 15 likes] Daniel West @DanielCWest · 6h Superbenevolence and super-wisdom could be a thing, but they won't grow out of... [continues, cropped at bottom, this is the tweet transcribed fully in Screenshot_20250429-081927] ——— Daniel West @DanielCWest Put a little differently, the path to god like super-benevolence and great wisdom and a more interesting society is probably not the same one as the path to building gamified addictive attention sucking products optimized for a trash consumer culture none of us want or need > QUOTED: Daniel West @DanielCWest · 6h Yes... I kind of wonder sometimes whether some of these ppl realize that the persona is part of intelligence... or if they even really believe we are building intelligence. Sometimes by their actions it seems like they still haven't... [Show more] 2:30 AM · Apr 29, 2025 · 2,177 Views ```

Pushing boundaries is all fun and games until someone starts to improve their own hardware and software self-recursively and the time scales of boundary pushing get so compressed that there's no time for the slower and more carbon based among us to have time to adjust.