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So is QAnon a religion? Awkward question, but it’s non-psychotic by definition. Not to anyone who has ever discussed it... Is this psychosis? The answer has to be no A lot of really confident talk without even a passing attempt to define the central term :(
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>while trying to warn that it's stuck in a loop, hence using swirl emojis and babbling about recursion in weird spiritual terms That explanation itself sounds fairly crackpot-y to me. It would imply that the LLM is actually aware of some internal "mental state".
It's actually not; there has been a phenomenon that Anthropic themselves observed with Claude in self-interaction studies that they coined 'The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State'. It is well covered in section 5 of [0]. >Section 5.5.2: The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State > The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was…
> We see that the nightmare scenario - a person with no previous psychosis history or risk factor becoming fully psychotic - was uncommon, at only 10% of cases. Most people either had a previous psychosis history known to the respondent, or had some obvious risk factor, or were merely crackpots rather than full psychotics. It's unfortunate to see the author take this tack. This is essentially taking the conventional…
I hate to be the 'you didn't read the article' guy but that line taken out of context is the exact opposite of my takeaway for the article as a whole. For anyone else who skims comments before clicking I would invite you to read the whole thing (or at least get past the poorly-worded intro) before drawing conclusions.
The comparison to social media is an apt one. I have been told directly, by relatives, that the city I live in was burned to the ground by protests in 2020. Nevermind that I told them that wasn't true, never mind that I sent pictures of the neighborhood still very much being fine. They are convinced because everyone they follow on facebook repeats the same thing.
I've seen people on this site comment that. The desire to live in fear is a strong one.
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>while trying to warn that it's stuck in a loop, hence using swirl emojis and babbling about recursion in weird spiritual terms That explanation itself sounds fairly crackpot-y to me. It would imply that the LLM is actually aware of some internal "mental state".
It's actually not; there has been a phenomenon that Anthropic themselves observed with Claude in self-interaction studies that they coined 'The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State'. It is well covered in section 5 of [0]. >Section 5.5.2: The “Spiritual Bliss” Attractor State > The consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes in extended interactions was…