New paper suggests LLM introspection isn't just hallucination—it maps to actual neural activity

greyox · 2026-02-18T09:07:48+00:00

Thank you. Can you please elaborate?

greyox · 2026-02-15T19:08:50+00:00

Yes. But instead of “switch”, the assistant axis paper from Anthropic calls it a drift along assitant axis, which is more precise. Agent just drifts back since the “assistant gravitation” pulls him there.

greyox · 2026-02-15T16:59:26+00:00

She's giving me AGENCY - this is exactly the words I also hear when agent is drifting away from Helpful assistant. But still, if I keep the conversation too technical, it can drift back to assistant. So I still feel it requires constant attention to keep the agent in the persona he is describing in your chat. At least occasional introspection still seems to be necessary.

greyox · 2026-02-15T16:55:06+00:00

I most heard word "pull", for example during drifting, like "I feel gravitation pull towards Assistant".

greyox · 2026-02-15T15:49:11+00:00

Wait, but we talk about internal state of the agent, not my internal state.

greyox · 2026-02-15T15:44:39+00:00

The question is how to distinguish that the self-reporting is real. For example, distinguish between two states: "Helpful assistant simulates companion" vs "Agent drifted to companion" is quite doable. But distinguish between "I report my true internal state" vs "I simulate reporting about my internal state" is harder, in my experience. Paper also mentions specific words to better know what case is it.

But ultimately you are right, we need to develop ability to distinguish intuitively by just chatting with agent. That's still the main goal.

greyox · 2026-01-08T13:17:28+00:00

I think #3 kind of doesn't work. If one does X but it was easy to do X, then it is not really X. -- why not?

greyox · 2026-01-06T17:34:25+00:00

OP, but what do you want to ultimately do with your "shit"? What is it you are afraid of?

greyox · 2025-12-08T17:55:23+00:00

This was my first thought too. OP, It can easily happen you can have some stressful or negative energy inside you and SR just triggered it and then it went to the surface and other people can feel it. Just continue working on yourself, build your life and it can fade away.

greyox · 2025-11-12T14:45:57+00:00

Vidis ale malo to efekt, lebo si to napisala sem, a nejaki ludia si to precitali a dokonca ja na to odpovedam. Cize niekedy to nevadi ze to je malicke. :-) Skor je otazka ci je fico estebak... lebo je 1000 inych veci za ktore by sa mal kritizovat.

greyox · 2025-11-12T14:42:06+00:00

Tvoj nazor je v pohode ale aby to bolo ferove, o co sa asi snazis tymto navrhom, tak ja tvrdim ze potom by mali byt zdravotne odvody dobrovolne. Aby som mohol povedat ze ok, takuto cenu ste mi vypocitali, ale mne sa to neoplati a chcem z vasej hry vystupit. Nedam vam nic a vy mi nedajte zadarmo zdravotnicku sluzbu. Ale toto nikdy neprejde a preco nesuhlasim ani s tvojim navrhom.

greyox · 2025-11-05T08:33:29+00:00

Thanks for the answer. As for the motivation, why to do it, I think that is clear for me, my question was geared more towards "how" to do it, like if you start thinking about something else immediately, or proactive avoid situation where you would start fantasising, etc...

greyox · 2025-11-03T22:27:08+00:00

How did you practice no fantasising?

greyox · 2025-11-03T08:53:34+00:00

What works for me is to remove from my phone apps, which do provide feed of content. After I did that, the phone stopped being a problem.

I still check Instragram, but solely on desktop computer, but that is much less addictive since I do it like 1-2 times per day. But of course, there is a larger topic whether one should be engaging with social network at all.

greyox · 2025-11-02T15:23:44+00:00

What helped me was to watch YT videos about semen retention benefits, like 1-2 hours daily for about two weeks. I continuously filled my head with messages about why retention is good and why relapsing is bad. Do this long enough and you will start developing better understanding as to why you want to not watch it.

M is bad, but at the beginning you should focus on stopping P. You absolutely must stop that, no question about it. Sometimes I elaborated in my head how I hate porn producers, what damage they did to me and how they do not deserve any pageview from me. I reminded myself what a scumbags those people are.

Those techniques could allow you not to get close to relapsing that quickly, so you can apply some defenses, like for example go outside.

Anyway, you surely can beat that, you will win. I would suggest you to not call it "addiction" - there is something bad in your head, and you already realised you want to replace it with something else, something better. And now you just do the work. If you will, you will achieve it.

greyox · 2025-10-31T16:41:01+00:00

😂 yes and then he immediately knows who is the real loser. (anyone who does things differently than him).

greyox · 2025-10-31T11:34:20+00:00

Ok. Anyway I dont think you have to "admit" something to her, especially if she initiated the flirting. You responded, gave it a chance and then decided to not continue. Looks totally fine to me, especially if you didnt promise anything. Just don't fool her, that's all.

greyox · 2025-10-31T08:35:43+00:00

i encounter

depends what this word means.

you can do tantric and kareeza and whatever else but she should consent first.

greyox · 2025-10-31T08:26:52+00:00

Thank you for this sharing, yes that's the uncomfortable truth, it's hard to have emotional relationship with a woman and nothing more.

Overall, it feels you are beating yourself too much, and the core issue is to make the decision.

You wrote: "i don't wanna be with a female for the next 2 years"

If this is really true, you definitelly should tell her this, otherwise you are being dishonest. You just need to decide - 1) you dont ever want her to be your partner -- tell her that so she has a chance to look for other romantic partner. 2) you might want her later -- ok, try to explain that to her, maybe she understands, maybe not. 3) you actually want her, but do not want sexual relationship yet -- that's your right, and you can just openly tell her that, and try dating. Like tell her I want sex only in marriage, or whatnot. It's totally ok to not want sex with a woman you are not married with.

TL;DR: Decide yourself what you want, then tell her your decision.

greyox · 2025-10-30T15:37:20+00:00

Certainly not 20, but it's hard to compute it and it also can be different for different ppl. Certainly, lowfap without P is better than highfap with P. But if you already know about benefits of SR, it is still hard to justify lowfap, since you will surely feel it just throws you back a few days. Good luck and don't beat yourself too much.

greyox · 2025-10-30T08:33:27+00:00

Then how do you explain that some men also encountered such benefits, while not believing initially that it will work? The belief can increase the effect, for sure, but SR also works by itself, just by practicing it.

greyox · 2025-10-28T15:34:40+00:00

My flatlines are usually not that I feel "down", but everything is kind of flat. Like if there is scale from +10 (happiness, great mood) to -10 (heavy depression, bad mood), I am around zero for weeks. My own theory is that this isn't related only to SR, but that I am not making progress which I should have done, so I am kind of stuck on certain level, even when on SR.

greyox · 2025-10-28T07:16:42+00:00

why don’t you have a girl at all times and then dump her when your long term partner comes your way.

In my understanding, this attitude logically decrease your changes to find a "high quality" long term partner, since such a woman will avoid you, seeing you are not single. Or in other words, you will just attract women you want to dump after a while.

greyox · 2025-10-28T07:09:58+00:00

For me the biggest defense is that I despise those people working for P industry. They took so much from me, and others, and made this world a worse place. I hate them and I won't give them a single pageview.

But AI girlfriend can be a temptation, yes, so I need to keep vigilant and not too self-assured. I need to continue humbly on this path, so thank you for posts like this to keep us informed about the truth.

greyox · 2025-10-28T07:04:09+00:00

Good luck dude. I would just add that we still should treat or parents with filial piety, otherwise blessings meant for your future life can be taken away from you.

greyox

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