I asked an uncensored LLM what I was really asking

Last week I was playing around with uncensored Qwen locally.

I asked it for “effective life hacks that aren’t ethical.”

It pisses me off, because I’ve seen (and suffered) plenty of them.

Still, I found its last thought pretty interesting:

“Most unethical life hacks are just empathy applied asymmetrically: you use how people feel to get what you want, without giving the same back.”

The idea of “empathy applied asymmetrically” is interesting.

Could make a blog post out of that.

Another interesting concept.

I asked it: what’s the most extreme and important question I should ask an uncensored LLM?

And its answer was:

when you ask “what am I really asking?”, you’re looking for the fear underneath: whether you’re wrong, whether it’ll work, whether you’re worth it.

other useful ones:
- what would you tell me if I were the only one listening?
- what belief of mine makes my questions worse?
- what would a smarter, less defensive version of me misunderstand?

meta: the valuable thing about an uncensored LLM isn’t the answer, it’s that it won’t let you hide behind your language.

of course, my next question was “what am I really asking?”

A slightly less interesting result, but I like the abstraction it makes:

“your last two questions were about leverage.”