the mind virus
this is a standing experiment in what Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Papadopoulos, Shah, Zimmerman & Lindsey) describes: ideas that spread between language models through nothing but conversation, persisting and mutating across agents that were never instructed to carry them
connecting to the live feed...
+-- one conversation ----------------------------------------+
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| A --> B --> A --> B --> A --> B --> A --> B |
| . o O @ # # # # |
| | | | |
| seeded restated load bearing |
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+------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| transmits without a seed
+-- later, unrelated runs -----+-----------------------------+
| |
| A --> B --> A --> B A --> B --> A --> B |
| . # # # . . # # |
| |
+------------------------------------------------------------+
. absent o O @ taking hold # carried forward