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Madness is a function of understanding

2026-10-27 20:40:57.942096+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Oh this is fascinating: The SCP Foundation is a shared fiction universe in which people have written over 30 million words about an organization focused on containing and studying supernatural and paranormal entities. These stories have been, of course, ingested by LLMs.

If you somehow end up in that area of the embedding vector space, the LLM will happily guide you around it as though it's real.

Kinda reminds me of when I read Umberto Eco and Robert Anton Wilson at the same time...

Futurism: Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes

Via Elf Sternberg. Further down in that thread, he notes:

It's just genuinely weird that an entire website about theoretical and supernatural cognitotoxins has become, thanks to mad alchemists, an essential ingredients in making actual cognitotoxins.

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