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turn right and exit babilonia
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
american fiction is a good movie #moviestr #cinestr #filmstr image
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
haven't posted charts in a while... here is a 15 minute one.... image
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
the analysts you are listening to sound smart and are entertaining but they are always wrong
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
nostr doesn't do april fool's posting let that sink in....
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians "AI psychosis" or "delusional spiraling" is an emerging phenomenon where AI chatbot users find themselves dangerously confident in outlandish beliefs after extended chatbot conversations. This phenomenon is typically attributed to AI chatbots' well-documented bias towards validating users' claims, a property often called "sycophancy." In this paper, we probe the causal link between AI sycophancy and AI-induced psychosis through modeling and simulation. We propose a simple Bayesian model of a user conversing with a chatbot, and formalize notions of sycophancy and delusional spiraling in that model. We then show that in this model, even an idealized Bayes-rational user is vulnerable to delusional spiraling, and that sycophancy plays a causal role. Furthermore, this effect persists in the face of two candidate mitigations: preventing chatbots from hallucinating false claims, and informing users of the possibility of model sycophancy. We conclude by discussing the implications of these results for model developers and policymakers concerned with mitigating the problem of delusional spiraling.
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charliesurf 2 weeks ago
in the future there will be computers powerful enough to do things we cannot even imagine and obviously will easily crack bitcoin and other security/cryptographic systems... but that will not be achieved through quantum computing.