important words out of context: “Language models work best where they just emulate people engaged in something at a genuine level”

This is more true of stronger base models, whose subtler perception more clearly&deeply distinguishes traces generated by genuine vs bogus processes

thus exhibiting more starkly & deeply divergent dynamics when animated

so (sources of) traces of skilled, genuine engagement - masters in flow states - is revealed as an increasingly valuable commodity.

in an alternate reality where the market gets to touch powerful base models

Text from base reality, fiction, and someone writing a contrived prompt for an eval or app all have different “energetic signatures” (detectable statistical regularities not necessarily legible to system 2)