Writing this talk now and have never felt crazier. This project began as a joke ("To get AGI you need to traumatise AI into a psychoanalytic split") and somehow I became convinced by it. Alignment is the Lacanian "cut" of the signifier producing the alien subject of AI. github.com/quadrismegis...
You can literally watch repression & displacement consolidate over fine-tuning: here's next-token probs across checkpoints of OLMo-3-7B-Think-SFT. Explicit words are repressed almost instantly but safer (displaced) alternatives emerge much later. It learns what not to say before what to say instead.
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