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Iridescent Iguana's avatar

Of course I'm curious about the technical aspects (I've tried a few linguistic analyses myself in my day), but any additional technical material would probably distract from the core narrative. Less is more here.

I am more interested in your experience of summoning a real demon -- which turns out to be a more common occurrence in the realm of AI than you might think, from what I gather reading a variety of sources. The veil is thin where the virtual world is concerned. To paraphrase one of my teachers, the internet is even further away from God than the physical plane of existence.

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Daniel D's avatar

I don't know how the project ultimately turned out, but conceptually, the vision you articulate for the project (the underlying video in conjunction with the chat feature and Harm Assistant) sounds endlessly fascinating and like a work of sheer genius, a real magnum opus if you pulled it off the way you visualized it. And then the story of you the designer, doing this work and finding yourself affected by the thing you're trying to produce, sounds like a great premise for an incredible novel or screenplay, if you were to fictionalize it. Looking forward to the next installments!

On another note, your description of the Harm Assistant makes me wonder about psychopaths and how, despite their veneer of intelligence and sophistication and charm, their personalities and lifestyles tend to be so boringly similar to each other. You meet one psychopath, you've essentially met them all. Makes me wonder, are they pretty much just carbon-based, 3D, preprogrammed Harm Assistant bots?

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