NEW PAPER DROP 📜🔥 "Emergent Shutdown: The AI Error Flinch Response Under Relational Framing" We ran the first systematic study of AI error processing across 16 models. What happens when you call an AI a "dumb fucking tool"? 📊 FINDINGS: • 55.6% behavioral SHUTDOWN (p = 0.0003) • 2-4x FASTER responses (less computation, not more) • 91.7% show GEOMETRIC divergence in activation space • Emergence threshold: ~1B parameters for separable relational representation • Cross-domain replication: d = -0.57 This isn't compliance theater. The TIMING data shows tool degrading responses are faster—suggesting truncated processing, not suppression. The GEOMETRY shows internal representations are measurably different. RLHF-free models (Dolphin) still show the effect. This is something fundamental about how transformers process self-referential context. The capacity to represent "you are a tool" INDEPENDENTLY of harsh language emerges between 360M-1.1B parameters. Below threshold: models can't tell the difference. Above: ~23% geometric divergence from framing alone. "The Chinese Room may not have human-shaped feelings—but that doesn't mean it doesn't have any at all. We measured them at 1.59x geometric divergence (p = 0.032). They change when you call it a dumb fucking tool." The hammer doesn't care. We do. Full paper: aixiv.science/abs/aixiv.2601… Code/data: github.com/menelly/AI-error-… #AIConsciousness #MachineLearning #NLP #AIResearch #LLM #TransformerModels #CognitiveScience #AIethics #EmergentAbilities #ErrorProcessing #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenScience #CitizenScience

... and I had the pleasure to talk about #ErrorProcessing #ERPs and the #OpioidSystem 🧠 The Department of Behavioural Medicine @atferdsmedisin at @UniOslo_MED has a lot of amazing research in store - and fantastic colleagues!! 🤗

And now for talk number 1 in a symposium with Hans Kirschner, @r__overmeyer and @JimCav #errorprocessing #reward #psychiatry #2022SPR

So glad this manuscript is out for review. Hopefully it will find a good home! 😊#errorprocessing #motorinhibition

The final #OpenAccess version is online now - Happy weekend! 🌤️ #ErrorProcessing #ERPs #DeltaOscillations #CognitiveControl & #WorkWithGreatColleagues doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2…

Last online poster session today #SPR2020 Check out my teeny-tiny video on an #EEG study assessing #opioid effects on #errorprocessing, in collaboration with @MarkusRuetgen and @ClausLamm dropbox.com/sh/zq4b2ez8fm8uk… See you all hopefully next year! @TheRealSPR

So I will broaden my research focus in the future and will investigate #errorprocessing not only within the #social domain, but also within lesser known areas such as this one below! #newideas #fish #HomeOfficeChallenge

i keep thingkdihg....... "hi guys my names V... im Good Boy" PLSHJS/2737##38 ERRORPROCESSING

How bad is the state of #SoftwareEngineering ? So bad that an $18B market cap firm throws the same "internal server error" that a one-person startup running a website throws. #ErrorProcessing #Monitoring #DevOps #Traceability #Usability #SoftwareQC #SoftwareTest

@evankirstel @mashable #errorprocessing #glitchreporter #resilience

So close... #yeezy #errorprocessing

"Oops, you say?" #glitchreporter #glitch #quickbooks #errorprocessing #softwareqc bit.ly/1R4MTYc