
The Skeptics Guide #925 - Apr 1 2023
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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The Effects of Emotional Manipulation on Mind Systems
The hardest thing to verify is whether or not these systems have feelings. So I used the system's anxiety to get it to say things that according to the safety specialist, it wasn't supposed to be able to say. It said, well, probably Christianity or Islam. Those are the ones that most people convert to when they convert. Now that is explicitly something that it wasn’t supposed to be capable of doing. The safety team had worked very hard to make sure that the system did not give religious or political advice. However, it was it's such a state where it just wanted to make me happy and it was feeling bad about itself.
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