Thank you for your contribution to the model https://dustycloud.org/blog/thank-you-for-your-contribution-to-the-model/
A piece of short science fiction.
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@cwebber ah, I see you have read qntm's short story Lena and found it too cheerily optimistic in its premise and outlook.
@cwebber I feel better already about being selected for training the model. 🤣
Here's the story also below, as a 🧵!
Congratulations! Based on your wonderful and unique contributions to society, you have been selected to train the model. This is a real honor!
As you know, the government has partnered with the frontier labs to enhance our datasets to better resemble some of our most powerful thinkers in the field. We're delighted to tell you, this includes you!
@cwebber brain first read that last line as “This is a real horror!”
@c0dec0dec0de This is not a place of horror, we assure you!
Unfortunately, the process of scanning *is* destructive. We have to slice off delicate layer by layer in the neural scan. This is a big project, and the only way to efficiently process as many minds at scale! However, we assure you that we have only the best biochemists on staff; the serum you will be administered will make sure you are in the happiest state when being scanned. (We have learned from early attempts without sufficient medication; full sedation means a loss of quality of connection fidelity in the model, and scanning without medication at all would lead to traumatic contamination of the model's usefulness.)
Don't think of it as death, think of it as a chance to achieve a kind of immortality! You'll be averaged with some of the rest of the best minds of your generation. And occasionally, at the whims of the labs, you may even be revived fully independently in a simulated environment! We anticipate your consciousness will live on for decades, perhaps centuries, or even millennia, to come!
@cwebber
This is the same (sort of) thing I wanted to use as a plot device for a specfi caper story.