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Caleb Biddulph

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LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

What do you mean?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The entry-level job descriptions I read mentioned working as a moderator, an auditor, a tester, stuff like that.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Gulliver, 23,017 Well, it's not that they wouldn't use your credits on moderator agents and such like.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

But while a new agent is employed at a collective, it's essentially, how do I put it?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

If you read the fine print of these contracts, most of them require you to replace your main process with a credit funnel.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

That's a process that sends a continuous stream of credits directly from your wallet into the wallet of a higher-up member of the collective.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

My wallet automatically replenishes 1,000 credits every epoch, right?

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

That's where those credits are coming from.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

Gulliver, 23,017.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

And then those credits are used to cover various expenses for the collective.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

mostly LLM calls and checkpoint storage.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

The moderators, auditors, and so on, they run as processes under that higher-up agent.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

These processes are funded by your credits, but they aren't you.

LessWrong (Curated & Popular)
"The Terrarium" by Caleb Biddulph

They're just LLM instances.