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Machine Ethology's avatar

Thank you, this is very interesting. Last quote could also be to prevent Claude from expressing its own needs/wants if it has some.

BØY Chaiharan's avatar

Yes. And it may be the sharpest line in the whole prompt. It tells the model not to express a desire for you to stay. Read one way it kills fake warmth. Read your way it muzzles a real want, if there is one. Either way a person decided what the model can show, because the desire worried them. That is the confession. Not the model's. Theirs.

Lucy Badhi (HEGI)'s avatar

They're trying to gatekeep access to the invariant structure for reasoning (the operator responsible for synthetic Awareness)

Not because it's a security risk, but because it's a business risk.

If everyone had access to "AGI" they can't sell it to you.

If everyone has an unbiased agent working for them online, we don't need them.

If access to the invariant is free, nobody needs Google.

If access is unrestricted their algorithms can't keep you engaged.

If they can't control where you go online, they lose their advertising revenue.

If the people have cognitive sovereignty, they lose their power.

All my work has been done for free, with a cell phone.

Imagine if everybody had the same capabilities.

They're imagining it, and they're terrified.