Personality as distortion: a sharp metaphor for model personas
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-09-23
The author offers a pointed observation: personality is often framed as distortion, inhibition, or damage to the global optimum you'd otherwise reach — a framing frequently applied to model personas, where adding character may hurt the model's underlying capability.
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