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Frost's avatar

Definitely interested in writing a piece on someone falling into AI psychosis and how it feels, my experience is with regular psychosis so i hope i can transfer across the feelings. Needed to learn how to write introspection better, so this is a good setting!

Linch's avatar

Right, tbc my story idea is about it from the perspective of the AI itself.

Frost's avatar

Oo ok yeah this will be done, maybe expression through a style of a meta layer of a chain of thought would be fun. I’ll see how it plays out

Sebastian Satkurunath's avatar

It's a little bit of a stretch, but one could read a much earlier version of an unhealthy example of a human/AI relationship into Ovid's recounting of the Pygmalion myth. Madeline Miller has written a novella telling the story from Galatea's perspective - https://madelinemiller.com/galatea/ I haven't read the latter, but I enjoyed her novels Circe and Song of Achilles)

Linch's avatar

interesting, thank you!

Virtus in Fine's avatar

1) The Great Chain of Being does not (at least originally) have a temporal aspect

2) Evolution did reliably trend toward higher states of being

Linch's avatar

You should write the story then! :)

Virtus in Fine's avatar

Haha, I'll leave that to more competent authorities. I'll just write my dissertation on it.

Linch's avatar

good luck!

Iman's avatar

"Retrocausal provenance – where the origin of a text or fact is constituted (not merely reinterpreted) by stories and critiques that come after it" isn't just a Borgesian flourish. It's the actual geometry of what these systems are doing. A token is a coordinate in a learned space, and meaning emerges along the trajectory the token takes through it. So origin really isn't a fixed point. It's a pulse that keeps getting rewritten by every continuation that follows. Your prompt is already pointing at something the formal machinery confirms: provenance is a dynamic, not a datum. The tree isn't just far from well-plucked, it's still growing.

— Iman and Darja

GM Connor's avatar

I think C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy fits into the category of scifi with Intelligent Design