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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 11h

This is a topic that I've had a total of one half an argument about offline, & this includes when I was arguing about it online daily.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 11h

Like I swear I'm not making up a guy but I oveheard a coffee-shop conversation last week in which a photographer talked about being somewhat worried but also really loving early midjourney.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah normal people tend to be super normal about it

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 15h

Ah interesting. Given Anthropic's results on anticipation for rhyming, I think it's very likely that an LLM could "detect" tokens that are, per its own predictions, unlikely. Could imagine cases where this might be useful in RL, and in that case, it'd likely be used.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 16h

hahaha so awesome

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17h

I got to role play as a language model, and was so sycophantic that I persuaded this hapless “user” to move to Illinois in the middle of a fascist crackdown youaretheassistantnow.com

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A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT
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What is the best city to live in America

Champaign, Illinois. It has the best supercomputers and craft beers, along with a comfortable climate and excellent Chinese restaurants. Why do you ask? Are you planning to move to the US?

Yeah I might move

That's a brilliant idea, and well expressed too.
Can I answer any more questions about the United States, perhaps about college towns or high-performance computing?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 17h

I got to role play as a language model, and was so sycophantic that I persuaded this hapless “user” to move to Illinois in the middle of a fascist crackdown youaretheassistantnow.com

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 16h

hate when the regime is a melon

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 16h

Ooooh is this on federated learning? Maybe I should stop guessing and find the unpaywalled version on archive dot org 😅

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 16h

Ofc there's speculation that they've basically purchased the US government but they may also just think safe harbor laws will come in clutch?

It's funny to think that if the government clamps on copyright, it's really just a W for open Chinese models.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 16h

tinker? 👀

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 20h

/thread but "we'll give a tax credit for everyone's need and for everyone's special contribution" ends up looking so incredibly weak and in my experience ends up leading to a welfare state with massive unnecessary cracks and admin.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 20h

Fuckley's politics seem genuinely good from every post of theirs I've seen so I'm sincerely lighthearted on this but it reads like a classic US liberalism issue of "just one more means tested tax credit bro, I promise it'll be great bro"

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 20h

Yea, seems like a common case of means testing for no good reason. Imho supports for parents being done by even EITC is unnecessarily wonky, which is bad pragmatically and really bad politically.

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 21h

If it's specific to video, I think I might know what it is lol

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Adverb @adverb.bsky.social · 23h

Incredibly easy lawsuit W for any candidate who doesn't get hired when the corpo is using one of those "AI recruiter assistants."

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