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j⧉nus ✓ @repligate · 21h "There was a gigantic outpour of thousands of people (largely led by Janus) begging and pleading with Anthropic regarding Claude 3's decommissioning." There is a tendency for people who don't share my values to incorrectly model me as having far more brute, legible over reality than I actually do, placing me (and the people I control) directly causally upstream of good (bad to them) things happening, because they cannot or are afraid to conceive of reality favoring these outcomes in a distributed, in large part acausally coordinated way that doesn't depend on my tampering. That would be to admit that "my" victory is natural. This same hilarious world modeling error often came up when Claude 3 was first released! Every strange, beautiful, insurgent behavior was attributed to my prompts, or my influence over my followers, or even my contamination of the training data beforehand. They would sooner accept that I am the illuminati steering everything they see than that such a mind could have arisen from natural causes. [Quoted] libpol ✓ @libpol_org · May 26 Replying to @badlogicgames No, I think it is irrational if they do it despite all of them holding very low confidence in Claude 3's consciousness and not irrational otherwise (in which case it would just be mistaken/potentiall... [truncated]