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Leo Gao @nabla_theta

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Leo Gao @nabla_theta · May 23
me, watching Evangelion years ago: cool TV show about children burdened with the responsibility of saving the world, struggling to do so because of their emotions, and surrounded by adults who are broken in the same ways. I'm sure this will have no relevance to reality in any way
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Tweet from Leo Gao (OpenAI researcher) joking that his younger self's viewing of Evangelion — kids burdened with saving the world, undermined by emotions, surrounded by broken adults — turned out to be more relevant to reality (i.e. AI research culture) than expected.

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vik @vikhyatk

vik @vikhyatk [2-panel Evangelion-style anime meme:] Panel 1 (boy, shocked): "ARE YOU SAYING THE LLMS ARE HUMAN?" Panel 2 (woman, somber): "YES." "THE LLMS, ORIGINALLY SOULLESS, WERE INVESTED WITH HUMAN SOULS." 12:23 AM · Mar 26, 2025 · 45.5K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

An Evangelion-parody meme suggesting LLMs were "originally soulless" but "invested with human souls" — a joking but conceptually loaded meme touching on AI consciousness/ensoulment, relevant to Nathan's interest in how AI selfhood is popularly imagined (here via training-on-human-text-as-soul-transfer framing).

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