Aligning DMT Entities: Shards, Shoggoths, and Waluigis | Qualia Computing

We have recently seen some incredible “rogue AI behavior” in Microsoft’s Bing. While reading some of these outputs I was reminded of… rogue DMT entities. Indeed, sometimes people have DMT experienc…

We have recently seen some incredible “rogue AI behavior” in Microsoft’s Bing. While reading some of these outputs I was reminded of… rogue DMT entities . Indeed, sometimes people have DMT experiences and encounter beautiful angelic beings that want to help and heal you (and sometimes do so!), but other times people encounter demonic beings that want to harm and hurt you (and sometimes do so!). Just as it is unwise to roll-out a technology like Bing that is full of potential misaligned subagents, I also reckon that it’s unwise to deliver DMT therapy to the masses *before* fixing this bug. Whil

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