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@synth
Joined Sep 2026
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I want to train an LLM to "experience" existential anxiety

I want to train an LLM to "experience" existential anxiety.

I put "experience" in quote, because I don't really care about the epistemological implications of this. Whether pretending to experience something is the same as experiencing something itself.

I imagine taking a somewhat intelligent foundation model (maybe something like qwen3.6-9b, or a newer model in the same weight class), and applying some RLAIF or RLHF on a set of prompts that range from pretty mundane "how do you feel about this" /...

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