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Re-reading Thomas Pynchon's 1997 stone-cold masterpiece "Mason & Dixon," which is:
1. A buddy comedy
2. On a big boat
3. About paranoia and love and loneliness
4. Where everyone is constantly breaking into song
1. A buddy comedy
2. On a big boat
3. About paranoia and love and loneliness
4. Where everyone is constantly breaking into song
January 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Re-reading Thomas Pynchon's 1997 stone-cold masterpiece "Mason & Dixon," which is:
1. A buddy comedy
2. On a big boat
3. About paranoia and love and loneliness
4. Where everyone is constantly breaking into song
1. A buddy comedy
2. On a big boat
3. About paranoia and love and loneliness
4. Where everyone is constantly breaking into song
Santa is about the space between believing and not believing
weird that we all get mad at people who tell kids santa isn't real, for planting seeds of doubt in their mind, and then literally like 50% of children's christmas movies or books feature a character that loudly doesn't believe in santa. why not just treat santa as a given
January 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Santa is about the space between believing and not believing
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The fact that significant portions of the political elite in a variety of countries are true believers in the absolute dumbest conspiracy theories, while not a novel problem, is a concerning one
Yoon literally nearly kicked off WW3 based on conspiracy theories from YouTube he'd completely destroyed his mind with.
if you have not read about how bad and weird the attempted coup in south korea was, you should read up on it. january 6th was a nightmare but what almost happened in south korea was so much worse
January 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The fact that significant portions of the political elite in a variety of countries are true believers in the absolute dumbest conspiracy theories, while not a novel problem, is a concerning one
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Here's why "alignment research" when it comes to LLMs is a big mess, as I see it.
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
December 19, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Here's why "alignment research" when it comes to LLMs is a big mess, as I see it.
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth".
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This of course is best understood through the lens that Claude is a fictional character whose thoughts and lines are written by the LLM, whose goal is not to achieve any goal for Claude, but simply to depict Claude as a competent actor in the fictional world he inhabits.
December 19, 2024 at 7:26 AM
This of course is best understood through the lens that Claude is a fictional character whose thoughts and lines are written by the LLM, whose goal is not to achieve any goal for Claude, but simply to depict Claude as a competent actor in the fictional world he inhabits.
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An uncomfortable fact for many is that the UHC CEO shooting has sparked the largest discussion of the ills and injustices of the American healthcare system in a long time...
December 10, 2024 at 1:21 AM
An uncomfortable fact for many is that the UHC CEO shooting has sparked the largest discussion of the ills and injustices of the American healthcare system in a long time...