Debate clarifies: is LLM 'model-directedness' just a 'current speaker' representation?

rgblong · x · 2026-09-24

In the ongoing debate over the LLM pain-representation preprint, researcher rgblong sought clarification: whether the speaker/user separation Tim Dufficy described differs from 'model-directedness' itself, and whether Dufficy's view amounts to saying apparent model-directedness may really be a 'current speaker' representation — which, conditional on prior Anthropic findings, would be less surprising.

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