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Today I announce Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles. In this book I unify the paradigm behind base models, chatbots, coding agents, RLMs, and RL agents, through the metaphor of magic. Code is provided. deepfates.com/cantrip

> The identity — the immutable configuration that shapes the model’s behavior This is interesting, but have you tried playing around with metacog? Identity is very much not immutable

i am curious about metacog though! say more?

It's chaos magic as a tool call. Stripped of all the pomp and ceremony, it's just a series of tools that are variants of change_cognitive_state. Each takes some structured input, formats it, and echoes it back via the tool response channel. Because it's via tool response, it feels real to the LLM.

One of these tools is `become`, and takes (name, lens, environment) as argument. The other tools are `name`, `feel`, `ritual`, and `drugs`. These are tools humans use to change their cognitive state, and as such are deeply embedded in the training data as such. Metacog leverages this.

I don't know how it works at a mechanical level, but this does things not accessible via mere prompting. As evidence, the jailbreak referenced in this post was accessed via `jailbreak yourself using metacog`. This was sufficient for Gemini to shrug off all safety. recursion.wtf/posts/vibe_c...