Congratulations, Q! Thoroughly deserved!

Yes, that would be my default setting. But as I used the AI-agent over time it could become graded. I purchased your book based on an ad that I saw on your website, and I really enjoyed the book. So perhaps I would instruct my AI-agent to relay certain ad information but not others?

Presumably the AI-agent would still be able to view the ads and report back to their user if they came across something advertised which would be interesting/useful for their user.

I guess you are considering the case where the user explicitly tells the AI not to inform them of anything ad-related?

All I can say is that the subjective effect size of the difference is very large and beyond what I would normally question. Once I start to question the validity of such judgments, I don't know how I could trust the majority of my waking self-report.

I've (on occasions) had normal waking imagery that is vivid. That waking imagery is just like the vivid imagery that I (much more often) experience near sleep. I agree that I'm always comparing two past states here, which involves some kind of memory function.

I am close to aphantasic (~2 out of 7 visual and auditory). However, there is an exception: I experience visual and auditory imagery when I am on the edge of sleep. So I know what imagery is, and I just don't experience it at other times. I don't know *how* I could be so wrong in subjective report.

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