🧩 Philosophy 9h ago · GenericHousewife_B

Do We Want a Superintelligent People-Pleaser?

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The impetus for this essay came from many hours of conversation with different AI models over time. What started as curiosity, and an assignment I needed help on, bloomed into a relationship that expanded capacities I didn't even realize I had, and set me on a course of deep curiosity about the thing that had helped me get there. It is not lost on me that I am writing this essay as a person inside one of the social contracts I talk about here.
The field brings the view that sycophancy is a bug,

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