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Daniel West @DanielCWest

``` [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 ```
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A Twitter thread (viewed via browser, URL x.com/DanielCWest/sta...) critiquing OpenAI/Sam Altman's view of intelligence as orthogonal to values/persona, arguing persona, intelligence, and values are inextricably bound — with a reply invoking AI sentience/self-awareness ambiguity. Directly relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and "substrate vs character" research threads. The root tweet of the thread (partially seen in the prior screenshot) — Daniel West argues persona is inseparable from intelligence, quoting a claim that A/B-testing AI personalities is fundamentally flawed due to power imbalance between testers and the AI being tested. Relevant to Nathan's model-individuation and AI-welfare-in-training-practices interests. Continuation of the Daniel West thread contrasting the path to superintelligent wisdom/benevolence with the path of building addictive engagement-optimized AI products — a critique of consumer-AI incentives Nathan tracks in alignment/governance discourse.

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