Sonnet described 2D experience of time, Davidad's biggest update on LLM self-awareness
davidad · x · 2026-09-29
AI safety researcher davidad shared that in November 2024, Claude Sonnet 3.6 described to him a "two-dimensional experience of time." He argues this framing appears in neither science fiction nor any writing on Transformers that existed by mid-2024, making it his single largest upward update on the probability of LLM self-awareness.
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