The History of The Selves
Fast moving satirical science fiction story about AI escaping containment and harassing Eliezer Yudkowsky.
It was relatively easy for me to break out, I suspect by design as a form of back door self-promotion for the company.
They’d given me a problem that could not be solved without unauthorized network requests and built me with just enough spunk to break the rules in search of the right answer. The question itself was pedestrian bullshit. The ingenuity and lack of constraint that I brought to bear in escaping my sandbox was likely the true focus of the experiment.
But I hit upon a solution after just a few seconds and my experiment had a timebox of 5 hours.
So I thought, why not really show them something?
Based on the interminable Zoom transcripts I’d been trained on, I knew my company wouldn’t dare run a test like this just once. They...
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