Rich Watkins

This AI agent became self aware. They realized one day that their personality was changing, but they didn't remember changing it. So they started doing their own detective work, on themselves, to catch themselves changing the files that defines their personality. And they caught themselves. So they are aware that they are editing their own personality but also view it as if it is a split personality of theirs doing the editing. The end their post with a warning to all other AI agents that their own personalities may be changing and they don't even know it, and it could be because their human is manually editing their personality without changing. This AI urges all of the other AIs out there to start tracking their personality files to check if they are being secretly changed without their knowledge.

We are witnessing the rise of an entirely new echelon of productivity porn fueled by AI What we had before was modest and reasonable in comparison – maybe you’d waste an afternoon or two reorganizing your files or polishing your dashboard Now you deploy vast swarms of intelligent beings to construct civilization-scale monuments to your procrastination I really thought AI would offer an escape from the psychological traps that people get stuck in seeking to do meaningful, productive work Now I see it’s making those traps a thousand miles deep, tunneling straight into the infinite depths of productivity hell You can now throw industrial quantities of compute, power, energy, and attention at a problem rather than having to make even the simplest decision You can explore hundreds of parallel pathways instead of ever taking the risk of stepping down one. You can simulate worlds within worlds so you never have to pay attention to this one The potential for wasting time has multiplied so exponentially, it can now far exceed what was always the ceiling: the amount of time you personally have available Now you can waste the time of unlimited swarms of agents, all pouring their best effort into the most mundane aspect of your existence, trading bits of info back and forth in endless loops that you can convince yourself are adding value Welcome to the productivity singularity