It's not a classic glitch token. Those did not cause the current "I'm unable to produce a response" error that "David Mayer" does.

Is there a salient reason LessWrong readers should care about John Mearsheimer's opinions?

I didn't mean to suggest that you did. My point is that there is a difference between "depression can be the result of a locally optimal strategy" and "depression is a locally optimal strategy". The latter doesn't even make sense to me semantically whereas the former seems more like what you are trying to communicate.

I feel like this is conflating two different things: experiencing depression and behavior in response to that experience.

My experience of depression is nothing like a strategy. It's more akin to having long covid in my brain. Treating it as an emotional or psychological dysfunction did nothing. The only thing that eventually worked (after years of trying all sorts of things) was finding the right combination of medications. If you don't make enough of your own neurotransmitters, store-bought are fine.

Aren't most of these famous vulnerabilities from before modern LLMs existed and thus part of their training data?

Knight odds is pretty challenging even for grandmasters.

@gwern  and @lc  are right. Stockfish is terrible at odds and this post could really use some follow-up.

As @simplegeometry  points out in the comments, we now have much stronger odds-playing engines that regularly win against much stronger players than OP.

https://lichess.org/@/LeelaQueenOdds

https://marcogio9.github.io/LeelaQueenOdds-Leaderboard/

This sounds like metacognitive concepts and models. Like past, present, future, you can roughly align them with three types of metacognitive awareness: declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and conditional knowledge.

#1 - What do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?

Content knowledge (declarative knowledge) which is understanding one's own capabilities, such as a student evaluating their own knowledge of a subject in a class. It is notable that not all metacognition is accurate.

#2 - Do you know what you are doing, and why you are doing it?

Task knowledge (procedural knowledge) refers to knowledge about doing things. This type of knowledge is displayed as heuristics and strategies. A high degree of procedural knowledge can allow individuals to perform tasks more automatically.

#3 - What are you about to do, and what do you think will happen next?

Strategic knowledge (conditional knowledge) refers to knowing when and why to use declarative and procedural knowledge. It is one's own capability for using strategies to learn information.

Another somewhat tenuous alignment is with metacognitive skills: evaluating, monitoring, and planning.

#1 - What do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?

Evaluating: refers to appraising the final product of a task and the efficiency at which the task was performed. This can include re-evaluating strategies that were used.

#2 - Do you know what you are doing, and why you are doing it?

Monitoring: refers to one's awareness of comprehension and task performance

#3 - What are you about to do, and what do you think will happen next?

Planning: refers to the appropriate selection of strategies and the correct allocation of resources that affect task performance.

Quotes are adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition

The customer doesn't pay the fee directly. The vendor pays the fee (and passes the cost to the customer via price). Sometimes vendors offer a cash discount because of this fee.

It already happens indirectly. Most digital money transfers are things like credit card transactions. For these, the credit card company takes a percentage fee and pays the government tax on its profit.