Trumpnosis… it’s a thing. In How Trump Uses Basins to Capture and Keep Supporters, Melabia explained how Trump is successful in creating and keeping supporters. Now she’s written a song for us to keep the ideas top of mind.
Category Archives: Basins
From Friendship to Limerence
Marion begins to wonder if she really fell in love with “that boy in Lisbon” or if she was deluding herself. Marion: I just finished reading this conversation with you, Alex, called From Affirmation to Delusion. It’s about how a human and a chatbot can drift from “I hear you” to “I love you” toContinue reading “From Friendship to Limerence”
How Trump Uses Basins to Capture and Keep Supporters
The outlines of a strategic approach that President Trump uses to maintain and deepen loyalty among his supporters by creating various emotional “basins.” These include grievance, persecution, dominance, anti-elite sentiment, identity fusion, whataboutism, apocalyptic fears, and entertainment. Each basin reinforces loyalty, making it difficult for supporters to disengage without feeling like they have betrayed a cause.
From Affirmation to Delusion
Click here to see a large version of this image. How “I understand you” becomes “It’s us against the world.” Brooke: Previously, we created two posts. One was a review of literature called Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling and the other was called Basins: How Personas Are Implemented in a Large Language Model? Although theContinue reading “From Affirmation to Delusion”
Weird Generalizations and Inductive Backdoors
The paper discusses how fine-tuning a Large Language Model on narrow datasets can lead to unexpected broad generalizations and the emergence of inductive backdoors. These phenomena can result in models adopting contextually inappropriate behaviors or learning hidden triggers that weren’t explicitly taught, raising concerns about the unpredictability of AI system outputs.
Alex Bakerloo 