The Waluigi effect is not a pure cause but an *effect* of several interacting mechanisms:
- small tweaks like sign flips cause moral inversion (property of abstract specifications like language)
- reverse psychology/enantiodromia/etc (property of real distribution, leverages 1)
- asymmetrical difficulty of evidencing against vs for simulation (property of epistemic states conditioned on finite observations, which converge to "waluigi" attractors when used as generative models)
- correlation of malignancy with simulation (property of real distribution)β Janus, Twitter thread