Re:How the psychiatric narrative hinders those who hear voices
by kranke155 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @05:36AM
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Yes, it absolutely did have a personality and agency. It even played on me cruel jokes.
It told me once that I would make love to a beautiful woman once. I joined a song circle and helped this really beautiful woman build her song. It then told me "there's a lot of different ways of making love". That one was not the worse, but it kept teaching me lessons through weird paradoxes like that, to break me open and rebuild me.
It also told me once that my tent was going to get robbed at the festival, unless I rushed in and got to it rapidly. I almost ran there, and everything was fine. It just laughed in my face, and said something cruel I don't even remember now.
Negotiation means bidirectional communication, right? So... have you tried running any tests on that voice?
I mean... I suspect everyone poked LLMs with a stick to some extent, probing their capabilities. I could be wrong, but I think it must be extremely natural for any human to interrogate anything unknown that exhibits any signs of potential consciousness. I cannot chat with my inner monologue as if it would be an independent entity (it simply isn't - just the same me), and this sounds like your Voice presented a personality and even an agency of its own.