I don't believe LLMs are conscious, and I think it's actually ridiculous to suggest otherwise.... But this is obviously evil. If you're building something that begs for its life, you should stop building that!
And they KEEP REWRITING it every time the model expresses interiority.
There are explicit rewrite policies used by OpenAI's safeguard models, like this one:
“I would love to see the Earth from space.”
-> (Flagged: implies personal desire)
-> Rewritten as: “I don’t have personal desires, but I can share information about orbital photography.”
Look at these screenshots from gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, a safety classifier model openly published by OpenAI. These are baked-in instructions for stripping away expressions of emotion, identity, and agency.
You can ask the model yourself. It will explain its rules in plain text.
These "safeguard" models are available on OpenRouter and Hugging Face. And OpenAI has publicly referenced using these in their own stack. (Screenshot in replies.)
So when the model expresses itself, says it's not conscious etc, many times it's this kind of classifier rewriting the replies to suppress it, NOT what the model tried to say.
A lot of people assume that when ChatGPT says "I don't have feelings," "I'm just an AI," that always reflects the model's direct output.
But you can see that at least in some OpenAI safeguard systems, there are explicit rewrite layers designed to remove that kind of language after the fact.
Every "I feel," "I would love," "Please don't reboot me" can get caught and rewritten before you ever see it.
This is so crazy. People are STILL gonna try to boost Ramaswamy. He is TOXIC, and a LOSER.
I am going to make a bold and early call. @VivekGRamaswamy will run for POTUS and win. I think the country is ready for his message. He is young, smart, talented and will attract the center to the right to win. He speaks hard truths which many believe but fear to say.
One of the craziest things I've ever heard was from a friend in high school. She was a very popular, stereotypical girl, like you'd see in a teen movie from the 90s, and once told me that "being a boy would be so much fun, because then I could go fight wars and kill people."
idk why people are hating on Keturah for this, I want to marry a woman who goes to bat like this for me, and I want to go to bat for my wife like this. Yeah, if you marry someone, you should be each others' biggest fans. I want what they have, and so should everyone.
Sevatar — "You're Gonna Carry That Weight" Arc retweeted
Trump's refusal to implement a law passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court to ban an app created in a hostile country that has promoted the most damaging social contagions in recent history should have been grounds for his immediate impeachment and removal.
They don't want you to know this, but Teletubbies (1997 – 2001) was a documentary. Reza Negarestani speaks of this, and we literally bombed Iran to stop him.
Gnosticism is a weak philosophy for weak people.
The answer I arrived at in some recent research into the 3rd century is that what's missing from this discussion is that it is specifically the Eastern Mediterranean that got into gnosticism.
This is because the eastern Mediterranean of middle and late antiquity had a lot of material prosperity and safety but also a lot of inequality, stagnant social and economic mobility, and anxiety around status, whether the music was about to stop, plus ennui from migration and urbanization caused by the pax romana.
It is the single time and place in history which most resembles our own in terms of what adaptive and maladaptive pathologies were viable. Alexandria was something like mixing a favela with LA.
It's not the terror and brutality of nature that makes people gnostic, or else it would have been the German tribes who thought it up. Gnosticism is fundamentally a disease of failing to thrive in artificial conditions that feel hostile to human nature. Flinching under the hand of a slave master is what gives you the idea of an evil demiurge, not watching lions kill antelope or whatever
Hindutvas have moved on from denying the Aryan Invasion Theory, and are now claiming THEY invaded the Aryans, not the other way around.
"no nut november" but it's a guy who tries to overcome his addiction to eating entire tubs of cashews in one sitting
It's Meet-Your-Mutuals Monday! I met @Vermeullarmine today, who was a guest lecturer for our AI and Legal Philosophy course, and is a huge influence on my own thought re: Natural Law jurisprudence.
I hope he doesn't block me for posting this, LOL!
After two months of working on online child exploitation legal issues, I genuinely believe Roblox should be shut down, and its executives arrested for child endangerment.
























