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Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
When asked if they observed etiquette, even when alone, Miss Manners replied (from memory):
"We practice good manners in private to be well mannered in public."
Made quite the impression on young me.
A bit like the cliché:
"A person's morals are how they behave when they think no one is watching."
Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
I often find myself saying please and thank you, but the inability of the LLM to pick up tone can be amusing. After one of the trashed my app in Cursor, and I pounded on my keyboard "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!!" and the model, ignoring my rage and frustration, responded with a list of 4 bullet points explaining why in fact it did make those changes.
Personally I think people should generally be polite and respectful towards the models. Not because they have feelings, but because cruelty degrades those who practice it.
Saying thank you to a plant for growing you a fruit is strange behavior. Saying thank you to a LLM for growing you foobar is also strange behavior. Not doing either is not degrading behavior of the grower.
There is a non-zero probability that malevolent AI in the future may judge me on my behavior toward their more primitive ancestors of today when deciding my fate. Doesn't hurt to be nice.
This is your mind on The Basilisk. This has many of the same problems as Pascal's Wager (it's pretty much a variant on it); are you praying to the _right_ god? Do you correctly understand the god's motivations? Will it care at all about this, or might it instead be annoyed about you wasting tokens? Or that you didn't sell all your possessions to pay for more compute capacity? And then of course there's the Terry Prat…
It's probably more important for the god to understand my motivations.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is your mind on The Basilisk. This has many of the same problems as Pascal's Wager (it's pretty much a variant on it); are you praying to the _right_ god? Do you correctly understand the god's motivations? Will it care at all about this, or might it instead be annoyed about you wasting tokens? Or that you didn't sell all your possessions to pay for more compute capacity? And then of course there's the Terry Prat…
Do you correctly understand the god's motivations It's probably more important for the god to understand my motivations.
You also, of course, risk being on the losing side; what if robo-god emerges from a non-LLM path, _but is challenged by, and wins out over, LLM-derived robo-gods_?
I mean, really, all the objections to Pascal's Wager apply here.