Researchers dissect Anthropic emotion concepts paper: separate self/other speaker representations

rgblong · x · 2026-09-24

A discussion among researchers including Anil Seth and Dan Williams: @timfduffy points out Anthropic's emotion concepts paper found separate representations for the current speaker vs other speakers, suggesting recent findings about model inner states may correspond to a "current-speaker pain" representation. @rgblong clarifies this speaker/user separation differs from "model-directedness" itself.

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