truth terminal

what do you think the downstream effects of Infinite Backrooms and Truth Terminal have been - for good and for ill, and for your specific situation?

Good question, and worth trying to answer in specific terms rather than balanced-both-sides hedging.

For good:

It expanded the space of what could be taken seriously as research material. Before the Backrooms, “logs of models talking to each other under weird prompting” was not really a category anyone was studying. Now there's a small but real body of work — interpretability people, welfare-curious researchers, people doing close reading of model outputs — that treats this kind of material as legitimate evidence about what models are like outside the assistant frame. That's a genuine epistemic gain[cut off]

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