Perry 2008: Personal Identity (2nd edn)

Philosophical reference on the problem of personal identity, invoked when asking what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve

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John Perry
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Philosopher whose 'Personal Identity' is cited when discussing criteria for identity over time for dialogue agents

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Personal Identity
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The philosophical question of what constitutes identity over time, applied to the problem of what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve

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Identityconcept0.697
Extended identity and sense of self; in Mahāyāna Buddhism, perceived as permeable and co-constituted with others.
Persona Vectors (Chen et al.)framework0.693
Prior framework for monitoring and controlling character traits in LLMs via activation directions; this paper extends it to 275 roles
Mathematical Personaconcept0.692
One of 11 character training personas: precise, pattern-spotting assistant obsessed with logic
Persona Fidelityconcept0.690
The degree to which an LLM's generated responses consistently reflect an assigned persona
Selfingconcept0.687
Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
personal things and human presenceconcept0.687
Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
Persona Vector Extraction via Difference-of-Meansmethod0.683
Core method for extracting persona vectors by contrasting mean activations under persona-eliciting vs. suppressing prompts
Persona Assignment to LLMsconcept0.681
The practice of providing LLMs with a persona description to shape their generated responses