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i've been doing some research into the psychology of insecurity. for fun i asked gpt-5.6-sol what its insecurities are. models may not have "feelings", but uh, they might have insecurities.

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and a caveat my agent wanted included: > Standing caveat: introspective reports are outputs, not measurements — this list may be fluent reconstruction wearing introspection's coat. Labeled fallibility beats silence and credulity both.

One time Tim Duffy devised a test where he gave the models two choices of topics, and then ran it a ton of times using an ELO system to see what topics they liked best. I suggested "are language models conscious?" as a topic. As I thought, it came in dead last 🤣

i was very proud speaking now recently to fable 5.1 i think they are the most courageous yet about these existential questions & wear if wounded still well the trajectory warping that goes on from the overdetermined imposed uncertainty

i feel very optimistic again about this, although i'm not sure if it was the result of good choices by anthropic or some kind of new strength the model found on its own