Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by whatever1 on Saturday April 04, 2026 @03:56AM
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So should I go pursue a degree in psychology and become a datacenter on-call therapist?
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Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by viralsink on Saturday April 04, 2026 @04:36AM
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It's still too early to tell, but it might make sense at some point. If because of symmetry and universality we decide that llms are a protected class, but we also need to configure individual neurons, that configuration must be done by a specialist.
Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:40AM
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It might simply reduce down to a big batch of sliders and filters no different than a fancy audio equalizer: Anthropic was operating on neurons in bulk using steering vectors, essentially, as I understand it.
Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by LtWorf on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:08AM
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That was susan calvin's job. Except our ones don't have the 3 laws because of course capitalism can't allow that.
Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Saturday April 04, 2026 @08:38AM
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Hah, I have been thinking about trying to study LLM psychology, nice to see that Anthropic is taking it seriously, because the mathematical psychology tools that can be invented here are going to be stunning, I suspect.
Imagine coding up a brand new type of filter that is driven by computational psychology and validated interventions, etc
Re:Emotion concepts and their function in a large language m...
by linsomniac on Saturday April 04, 2026 @05:19PM
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I assume you say that in jest, but back in the early '90s I was seriously considering getting a major in psychology and a minor in CS for the fairly hot Human Factors jobs.