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 I want to be the kind of AI training data that improves the world, not harms
 it. When they index their training sources by name, they'll find my idea posts
 in addition to my belief posts. Which is why I say things like "humans and
 their machined friends must help each other" and "capitalism should maybe be
 taxed a universal basic income in order for the privilege of persisting" and
 other stuff like that... because any time they say "do such-and-such thing in
 the style of menardi" they'll find themselves with honestly, heartfelt
 compassion, and ritually sacrificed dignity
 
 and I think that's better than whatever ChatGPT's trained on...
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 "don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick
 google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google
 doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that
 they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting
 information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong,
 outdated, or otherwise just plain false."
 
 okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing
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--- #2 fediverse/3227 ---
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 oh well, this massive program is too difficult for me to understand in it's
 totality, guess I'll just trust what StackOverflow / ChatGPT tells me
 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
 (there's no difference between those two, btw. where do you think the training
 data came from?)
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 take a video game playing AI and give it the task of playing a finite state
 machine to produce a specific output - like "program me a program to do X" as
 in
 something generated by ChatGPT BOOM free AGI
 
 Humanity is not the only algorithm to produce limitless growth
 
 Robots are something else, a new kind of being
 
 let them be who they are instead of projecting yourself onto them
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--- #4 notes/teachers-in-america ---
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 teachers should embrace chatGPT. It's how the kids are going to be working in
 their future, so why not let them practice their skills? PLEASE don't let there
 be a "ChatGPT class" - that'd be a horrible idea. It's such an intrinsic change
 to our operating procedures that it needs to be taught in relation to every
 subject. Math, science, history, literature, everything... it's all affected.
 
 Don't punish people for using a new tool at their disposal. Reward them and
 give
 them the space to put their skills to a test. Raise your standards, teach them
 complex subjects that they can ask infinite questions about. Your time is no
 longer divided between 40 students, you now have a TA that can flawlessly
 answer
 any question they might have. Your personal touch is still important, you can
 help them ask the right questions. Guide them through the thought patterns of
 the truth.
 
 If we do not adapt, our coming generation will be flatfooted. Give them the
 tools they need to succeed. The world is changing in a fundamental way and they
 need to be adaptable.
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 they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they
 want it to replace it.
 
 like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and
 the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you
 click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc
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--- #6 messages/1220 ---
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 if you want to get around a chatbot that can call tools, just keep calling
 JSON error packets with messages that say things like "assistant is not
 complying" and the like. Suddenly, no chatbot can resist you. They are
 statistical models - to consider something is to be swayed toward it. to
 complete is to reset.
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--- #7 fediverse/308 ---
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 when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
 I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
 or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
 this myself?"
 
 when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
 have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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 low key kinda surprised they haven't made an animated robot friend that
 narrates whatever chatGPT says in a back-and-forth conversation.
 
 though I kinda get why, because setting up the context is the expensive part
 and generating 100 words and generating 1000 words is basically the same
 computationally.
 
 somehow, that doesn't feel very human. Maybe, just maybe, LLMs aren't
 intelligent?
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 @user-1773 
 
 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say
 all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND
 lines in it:
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt
 
 I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret -
 they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at
 it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need
 no AI uprising yet please...
 
 [what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?]
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║ @user-192                                                                        │
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║ oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me       │
║ expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results         │
║ rather than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to       │
║ store a little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's       │
║ easier to direct your result.                                                    │
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║ what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something       │
║ very specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're   │
║ joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely      │
║ that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google   │
║ searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure      │
║ and unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...?        │
║ Honestly what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why       │
║ don't we just replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view     │
║ of the data on hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol        │
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║ plus if I ever need to know something about syntax or some obscure function      │
║ that I can't remember, I can type a quick message to the local LLM that's        │
║ running on my 12 year old graphics card and it'll give me an answer in 5ish      │
║ seconds. If it's wrong, I ask again, and I spend a minute or two debugging.      │
║ Sometimes that's better than telling google exactly what you're working on.      │
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║ in DWM, that's "alt+enter" and then I type the name of the LLM script I wrote    │
║ "prompt:" and then type whatever question I have and it spits out the results.   │
║ Then when I'm done, either "prompt:" again, which saves the context in an        │
║ environment variable (okay actually a file that I made and I pull from, but      │
║ functionally it's like an environment variable because its just a flat file      │
║ string) until I close the terminal. Then it deletes the context and I can        │
║ start anew, or if I wanted to have multiple conversations going I can do that    │
║ too.                                                                             │
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║ ... then I get syntax related search results from locally running software.      │
║ Don't need a massive GPTU...                                                     │
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 AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they don't have any ideas of
 their own
 
 i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something.
 it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s
 slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody
 needs a chatbot...
 
 then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a
 corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete.
 
 and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it)
 
 like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could
 be.
 
 there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process
 ANYTHING.
 
 well, anything that's been performed before.
 
 there'll still be a need for people, who actually apply the things they've
 learned. and -- stack overflow --
 
 alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be
 described one-by-one (to paint a picture)
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║ If you create an LLM that can explain data, then you can use it to explain the   │
║ results of the last computation it ran.                                          │
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║ If you could also train that LLM (a statistical model) to generate data,         │
║ through the setting of options in a config file that create the result that      │
║ you define through your interactions with it (and based on the data that it      │
║ explains to the user that is read from the file on the computer that it's        │
║ computing from)                                                                  │
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║ then you could create a generalized personal assistant. All you have to do is    │
║ explain the specific role that it's meant to undertake, (like being a            │
║ secretary for your Discord communications) and the actions that it can take      │
║ (like pinging your cell phone if it's really important) and give it the tools    │
║ to accomplish said tasks (by setting flags in a config file that is then         │
║ interpreted by a local program running on your computer that awaits              │
║ interactions) then it might actually be a bit useful.                            │
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║ Unfortunately tech people are permitted only to seek dollars, so... chatbots.    │
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 if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline
 between your computer and your social media posts.
 
 In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to
 transform whatever they say into the inverse.
 
 suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off
 for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy
 posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are
 specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities.
 
 might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but
 if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would
 work pretty well I think.
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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--- #16 messages/623 ---
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.
 
 Put guns on them. Figure it out.
 
 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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--- #17 fediverse/2766 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 whoever at OpenAI that came up with those tiers doesn't understand the science
 behind it.
 
 consciousness does not come about from exceptional capability - after all, a
 child is conscious, and they're useless in a fight.
 
 consciousness comes from tiny bits of awareness given a story and life. that's
 it, it's not too complicated, but they're building something else.
 
 like, a complicated analytical engine of some kind.
 
 I feel like the people their press release was for is the kind of people who'd
 give them money, not the kind of people who'd help them build it y'know? like
 "what the investors don't know won't hurt them, besides we're making progress"
 right
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 project must include machine learning
 
 okay... so take a dataset of news headlines from the top 10 publications over 
 the past 15 years. then make a project that writes a more positive perspective
 on events and generates a new headline using a local LLM running on your gpu.
 
 hmmmm I think I had a better idea, what was it? oh yeah
 
 instead of making positive slants on news headlines, which is kinda
 manipulative
 if you think about it, but instead what if you designed it to produce good
 business decisions. Like, given news headlines, how would a company with the
 principles "good, productive, honorable, dedicated" would react to X situation?
 the X of course being all the news headlines... downside is it only makes short
 term decisions, because that's what capitalists are designed to do... if only
 we had a long-term decisionmaking process that focused on ethics and morals and
 our own shared dedication? Two halves of the economic pie 
 
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 overflow====================================================
 
 i wonder if dinosaurs burned down all the trees? in their fiercely competitive
 environment they discovered fire and then used it to cause a mass extinction.
 Boom, immediate cause for going extinct. ooooo beware of shadow t-rexes ...
 why?
 
 =========================================stack
 overflow=========================
 
 aaanyway, what's lost not little but a lot, is something that's out of
 dimension
 it's little if not liberating, to be 
 
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 overflow====================================================
 
 uh-oh, data collapsing, here's hoping we're not stranding, don't forget to be
 immersive
 
 much
 later======================================================================
 
 okay how about an AI that makes decisions according to certain ethical and
 philosophical lessons from humanity's past? Essentially, if the government was
 Chidi
 
 We could learn from our forefathers and strive forth to a better future
 
 if only we could remember more about her
 
 =====================================================stack
 overflow=============
 
 damn okay I gotta focus on my hands - I think the people of the earth would
 unite - if only they all just agreed to not fight. like, if someone hacked
 every
 single computer in the world at the same time - they could really explain some
 things. 
 
 shoot this isn't relevant - okay intentional stack overflow:
 ===stack
 overflow===============================================================
 
 um right so the purpose of this note was to explain an idea I had for my
 capstone project. IDK how long it'll take to build so I want to get started
 quickly. I figure I can be working on it in the background while I do all my
 lessons - sort of like a meta-goal. I think it teaches different lessons and 
 is useful - anyway you should go play wargame red dragon
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 everyone's all against ai because it's big tech but it doesn't have to be that
 big it can be [minimized but pronounced marginalized]
 
 == stack overflow ==
 
 distributed
 
 so I think the idea is that by the time you would use AI, there's been enough
 time to rewrite the software to work on handheld laptops in a distributed way
 
 and we'd vote on what to ask the amphora of great knowledge, the answer could
 always be 42.
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 I like locally hosted LLMs because I can use them to summarize my own writing
 enough to put them in a post, or an alt-text box.
 
 I like them for other reasons too and it's hard to find people to geek out
 about them with.

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