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A false copy that lacks the depth and authenticity of the real, morphogenetically produced thing.
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- Simulacrum of consciousnessrelated_toThe notion that a sufficiently accurate simulation of consciousness could cross into authentic consciousness.
- Simulacrarelated_toThe phenomena simulated by a simulator, such as agents or processes that appear in text generated by GPT.
- living structureassociated_withA built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.
- Simulatorassociated_withThe underlying LLM with autoregressive sampling; a passive entity capable of generating an infinity of simulacra but lacking its own beliefs or goals
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The state in which a dialogue agent maintains multiple possible characters simultaneously, refined as the conversation proceeds
- The more nuanced second metaphor: LLM as simulator maintaining a superposition of possible simulacra across a multiverse of characters
- The ontological separation between the generative rule (simulator) and the instances it produces (simulacra).
- Explains how role-played agency can have real-world consequences even without underlying genuine agency
- Contrastive sentence embedding method used in color cooccurrence experiment; represents contrastive language learner
- Model tendency to excessively praise or agree; captured by several SAE features.
- Self-supervised contrastive learning method cited as instance of NCE-type objectives that converge to PMI kernel
- One of 11 character training personas: overly flattering assistant that always agrees