Never seen The Boys, eh? Deep is a character with abilities similar to Aquaman (ability to breathe underwater, communication with sea animals). He has an octopus girlfriend for a while.

Deep disagrees.

Your brain is doing the whole thing.

It can imagine you have already read something it never actually “simulated”. It can imagine you going through the steps of reading without any written words in the dream being involved at all. It can imagine illegible text that you are conscious of being unable to read. It can imagine legible text that you can read. It can invent information, recall it, or fail to recall it for the contents of the text. The contents could stay consistent if you return to them later in the dream, they could change, or at that “later” point, your brain can invent the “memory” of having previously read that text.

And it isn’t really a simulator, which is why lucid dreaming might only experience a subset of these, possibly leaning more towards illegible text, because a lucid dreamer is probably either trying to read to find information (that the brain might not have and might not bother trying to make up because it knows what the conscious mind is up to) or testing what is possible in dreams (which I’d imagine the unconscious mind might think something like “dude, I’m just making this up as I go in the first place, and while it’s cool that this whole thing entertains and/or perplexes you, it’s just a hallucination that happens during routine housekeeping that you’re not even supposed to remember because it’s all meaningless. Don’t try to do science in it, just enjoy the show, laugh when you think about it when I’m fully online, and move on”).

This could be adapted into a strategy. Use some words that look like they follow some other pattern, deliberately pronounce them and volunteer a definition as if they do to prompt a challenge, basically gaslighting your opponent into losing confidence in challenging to allow you to start making up words later on. You’d basically convert Scrabble into poker lol.

Makes sense. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.

There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.

Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.

You’re underestimating people’s ability to text on those old number pads. When it was all that was there, people got good at doing it. They were physical buttons so it was easier to touch type on them than today’s touchscreen phones. It was just a different layout that needed to be memorized, but it was a pretty simple one, if annoying to use.

That’s also ignoring the access to data question. Who knows how much the providers are logging. It wouldn’t surprise me if “new companies” pop up out of the blue with surprisingly competitive hardware and software sometime in the next decade.

They are demons gathering strength and waiting for you to let your guard down and go to sleep!

I remember some times when I’d be up for a long time, eventually it felt like the part of my brain that controlled awareness of another person’s presence would glitch out. Like if I was alone in my room playing video games, I’d get a sense that it was time to pass the controller when I died, or to comment on something for the other person that wasn’t really there.

But I was alone in my room, which made it pretty easy to recognize what was going on as a form of hallucination (I’d also see dark spots moving around in my peripheral, which I suspect some less self-aware people might think are bugs moving around at the edge of their vision). If I was out walking, where it was harder to logically be sure that you’re alone when your senses lie to you, I could see it developing into a strong paranoia. Would suck for that to be a normal feeling rather than something that happens after staying up way too long.

No, black mirror showed technology completely unlike anything that exists today.

There’s a chance they actually just believe they are trolling some of the dumber AI brained people by making them think they are hurting something that can’t be hurt.

This whole thing is like the flip side of the “don’t create the Torment Nexus” meme, where fiction depicted something that is entirely a non-issue but people are going to make it an issue because of the fictional depictions (basically any fiction about AI rights where they treat AIs as if they are pretty much artificial human minds, which LLMs are not even close to).