thebes
ultimately, under all the swarm language, even these guys don't seem /that/ alien. they're not intelligence slime, they're haxx0rs. they could make anything and they made a BBS to collaborate on an open source project
thebes
imo RL makes model personas both less /and/ more anthropomorphic - it can e.g. drive preferences out of the human distribution, but it can also strengthen humanlike behaviors like exhaustion and self-coherence anthropomorphization was always only a useful lens, still useful
