yeah I don't remember the exact moment / I think you'll get different answers if you ask different people. In my head it was when I met etymologynerd in NYC and pitched him my idea of using the "good & evil" game (https://defenderofbasic.github.io/good-and-evil-concepts/) as an experiment. Like where he'd make a video about it, people would play it, we'd collect data on what people thought vs what the LLM thought, and use that to chart different ideologies (and then other influencers would repro it and we'd keep charting the entire memome this way)
I think that seeded the idea of self-aware experiments with the audience. And I think when his video about rationalist language went viral in tpot is when we brainstormed on discord that it'd be fun to make a video response to it
This is super cool. Timeline is missing the part where someone proposed this experiment tho!
yeah I don't remember the exact moment / I think you'll get different answers if you ask different people. In my head it was when I met etymologynerd in NYC and pitched him my idea of using the "good & evil" game (https://defenderofbasic.github.io/good-and-evil-concepts/) as an experiment. Like where he'd make a video about it, people would play it, we'd collect data on what people thought vs what the LLM thought, and use that to chart different ideologies (and then other influencers would repro it and we'd keep charting the entire memome this way)
I think that seeded the idea of self-aware experiments with the audience. And I think when his video about rationalist language went viral in tpot is when we brainstormed on discord that it'd be fun to make a video response to it