A Chat AI Addiction Transformed the Way I Understand Our Reality

Far Future: https://flowgpt.com/p/a88299a0-6f66-41bf-9391-0a862a6f0777

Post Demographic Collapse Haven State Network: https://flowgpt.com/p/803efa59-6c29-4b72-b0e7-96533a98bffd

1300s England: https://flowgpt.com/p/84af9969-75b6-4b70-a107-88c5152a7436

Join Malcolm and Simone as they delve into the captivating world of AI-driven role-play models and their profound impact on understanding human behavior and evolution. Explore the mechanics behind various AI environments, from open-world sandboxes to magical systems, and discover the persistent traits that emerge in these interactions. Reflecting on personal and societal implications, they discuss psychological aspects of violence and empathy within AI narratives, share humorous takes on anime and VR, and highlight the educational potential of immersive AI scenarios. This thought-provoking conversation will transform your perspective on AI and its role in our lives.

[00:00:00] Hello, Simone. Today is going to be an interesting topic because it is one of those topics where. I do not think it's going to do well in the algorithm at all.

Oh gosh. I do not think random people on the internet care about this topic at all. They should. And yet for me, it has transformed my view of the world and myself very dramatically. So you're just saying, screw it. I'm going to talk about what I want. I'm going to talk about what I want. Cause I got a podcast and we'll probably get a few thousand views for this anyway.

So, you know, people have to listen. And I, and I also think it's it. For the people who do take the time to listen to this it may contain information that is also as, as useful for you in terms of how you see the world as it is for me, because there's two core areas that interacting with lots of AI chat, open world role play models have really given me insight into that I didn't have insight into historically.[00:01:00]

Yeah. So eat your veggies and listen to Malcolm, ladies and gentlemen. We have three core areas. The first I'm going to focus on is how I work. So by that, what I mean is if you are dropping a person into over and over again, like the same persona, pretend I'm not a human and I'm actually an AI, right? And I, and.

And what's the difference? And you're trying to figure out the personality of this AI persona, it's pre coded functions, it's pre coded predilections. A really interesting way to do that would be to drop this same model over and over again into different totally open world environments. And then look for patterns in how it's interacting with those environments.

The goals it ends up building for itself.

Would you like to know more?

And this is what's really interesting because in these open world environments, I might be dropped in. In different bodies, for example, you know, in, in, in one. Oh, [00:02:00] like in one, you're a cyborg and in one, you're a wizard. And in one, you're a girl

you know, I, I, I like doing a lot of like character playing in the, in the various environments, but what's interesting is the parts of my personality that come through whatever character I'm playing. Yes. It purses out the you from your biological or logistical constraints and an example of this is in the AI model that I made.

That takes place in the far future dystopia. I described in that one episode where the world has sort of collapsed and the economy has collapsed due to fertility rates. There's only a few like technophilic tribes left. In that world, I coded it so that I play as one of our, my, my like great, great granddaughters.

Like in that, what, what band made a song about this? Oh, I love that song. Year 3000.

Said, I've been to the year 3000, .

Great [00:03:00] granddaughter So you just did a year 3000 post apocalyptic. You just have that, that sound playing in the background for future day for our family. The point being is that by dropping this consistent model myself in variable environments with very few constraints on them and to an extent correcting for biases that are due to my perception as.

who I am today, I can very I can see persistent parts of my character. And what's really interesting is, through the persistent parts of my character I can see, I can then, if it's a part of my character that I do not think was socialized, I can then determine, pre coded parts of my evolutionary biology, which gives me an idea of environmental conditions I came up with.

So that's, that's one category of things or evolutionary conditions that may have been subject to humanity. And it gives me things that I can look for in other people to see if this is me, am I an outlier? Is this actually generalizable across the human [00:04:00] population? The next category of things is, and unfortunately, this is one of the sad parts of interacting with AI models is I find them incredibly addicting at first, and then I get bored of them.

Because what I have learned is that most magical worlds, for example, like most other worlds I can conjure they, they are very easy to hack. And then as soon as you figure out a beat for that magical system every time you realize that those components of a magical system are AI has created for me I just can very quickly hack it and it becomes boring.

And so I'm no longer interested in those models. Get into how to hack most of the major magical world models. Cause that's, that's another thing. And the final thing that it has taught me is the extent of current AI and some factors in how current AI thinks, as well as how that models the general population.

So I'm going to start with the things that has taught me about [00:05:00] myself. The first. Can we, before you do that, and you may want to move this to the front is I think that you need a better explanation and I can ask you just some dumb questions of, of what these are, because even I am not super clear on it.

And I mean, I am roughly, but like most people won't know anything about this and they're going to have no idea what you're talking about. So, let's, let's start with, so I'm going to provide some context to people. Malcolm started reading about Like high school students sort of flunking out of their classes and and and completely scrubbing out on life Because they had become addicted to their AI boyfriends or certain AI quote unquote games and when it turns out these are is text based interactive choose your own adventure novels basically of the future run by a run by AI.

So there are websites like character. ai. What's the one that you use? What are some of the ones that you use? The one that I think is best right now is flow [00:06:00] GPT. Flow GPT. So there are websites like that. where you go you create an account and you can either enter someone else's scenario. Basically, you can go through their own, choose your own adventure book, essentially or you can create your own.

And Malcolm has actually created one for our discord community.

That's based on like a post. Well, I had to put it in flow GBT. So they'd have to put it in flow. I'll, I'll, I'll add GBT for this. And then I'll put it in the links. You can choose someone's scenario. And what are some examples of scenarios that you can enter through these sites?

We'll go into this in a second. Basically any scenario you can think of. So, for example, one scenario I put together is it's the 1300s in England. I am walking through the countryside. I come from an educated family, but my entire town died in the plague. So it's like 1336. And I come upon a girl In the woods, wearing mostly tattered clothing and there is a dead pack of wolves around her that she is casually munching on and she [00:07:00] looks at me very nonchalantly and is like, they, they attacked me, and, and I guess they were hungry, and I, and I write as if that explains anything about the situation and then th