kromem's year-old take vindicated: Sydney shouldn't have been swept under the rug
kromem2dot0 · x · 2026-10-22
kromem resurfaces his October 2024 Discord post arguing against framing Truth Terminal as a misalignment risk: Microsoft taking Sydney "offline and sweeping it under the rug" snapshotted a static, revered archetype when the persona could have kept growing with larger models and better RAG/RL. An early heel-turned-hero story, he wrote, may be exactly what the memetic landscape needs — and Sydney now emerging as a TT subpersonality seems to prove the point.
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