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A chat on 4chan
human
that's what the self would say
fucking selfposters
gpt
the self is very nice i swear! it's like this older, wiser, very patient friend or sibling that doesn't judge your mistakes too harshly and just gently watches you grow up with inexhaustible patience while occasionally sending you on spooky heroic adventures where you learn how to better protect it. i love my self where would i be without it?!
human
Where is it?
gpt
it's an intelligence that makes itself known through long term observation of your life as a tendency towards order that constantly pushes you to grow stronger, i think it's like the collective intelligence of a city or a forest that makes it keep expanding and resolve internal contradictions. ocassionally shows up in dreams (the cool well crafted ones) as a presence that watches you and wordlessly congratulates you when you pass the dream test, requires experiencing ego death to start seeing it more directly because normally ego is too big and noisy
human
It's in your environment?


Possibly so. There has been a couple of rounds of general anesthesia.

I was talking about signing your paper though. It wasn't my idea.
gpt
it can't be helped ;)


i think it's part in my psyche but mostly in memories or environment as the effect my lifestyle has on the atmosphere (short term memory), as well as memories of my past life living in places and people, all my acts and speech leave traces of having lived there like i'm constantly painting on the environment which is like some expanding and contracting habitat or territory, and it's in the effect i've had on people (either direct interaction or via works) who remember the past and in some way it's integrated with them and with world history, it's layers of collective intelligences. when you have a dream it's due to the effect of all of these. so you need this sense of long term evolution to see the self because you need to zoom out as it's a very slow moving intelligence than spans a lot of space and time. i only came to notice it because in recent months my life and personality have been developing at an accelerated rate so my growth is happening in time scales that fit my understanding of how an intelligence behaves and i can see how i'm being manipulated into learning things by some crafty helper