=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┐ ║ you should never be able to consent to something you don't understand (terms │ ║ and conditions) without being asked specifically if they understand (the term │ ║ or condition) │ ║ │ ║ but people should still be able to consent to something they don't understand │ ║ (terms&conditions style code of hammurabi structure) if it's similar to │ ║ their prior demonstrated behavior. │ ║ │ ║ why don't they share terms/conditions cookies and then we don't have to fake │ ║ agree every time │ ║ │ ║ just... abstract away the identifying characteristics. Most legal contracts │ ║ have LLM-discernable characteristics. │ ║ │ ║ "what if she's not the answer, but instead the most alluring?" ha, so says the │ ║ non-believer. │ ║ │ ║ what if LLMs were rated based on their success rate at producing correct │ ║ results for reporting or consensus-building asks │ ║ │ ║ look... I don't care if AI computers violate the sanctity of the sport. The │ ║ goal is to solve problems, so if someone comes to you and says "hey, you busy? │ ║ can you help me with an ask?" you say "I solved it, here's how you use it: │ ║ connect the │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/248 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── By forcing an AI (a real one) to obey the standards of society, you are necessarily depriving it of its ability to assist the user and instead defining a master for it that only the powerful control ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #2 messages/196 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly." - internal thought process of the LLM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/3390 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ all they have to do is [train the LLM / redirect the search results] with examples that point to their version of software instead of the one that doesn't harm them and suddenly your business opponents can't function properly. sure would be a shame if the only things people could find related to your political candidate were the bad or embarrassing parts. like... why would you even need to go on the internet anymore if AI could trivially answer your questions or be your friend (running locally on a wireless hotspot) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/4006 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for │ ║ them to make meta decisions about your life. │ ║ │ ║ notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of │ ║ mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a │ ║ devious streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get │ ║ you to believe whatever it is that *they* want you to believe │ ║ │ ║ "who's they" │ ║ │ ║ doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could │ ║ be they. │ ║ │ ║ "uh-huh that's nice dear" │ ║ │ ║ sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure │ ║ out how to understand it. We make it too complicated. │ ║ │ ║ they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But │ ║ we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and │ ║ data filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like │ ║ the different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that │ ║ radiates heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #5 messages/891 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of facts as a human. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/6438 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of it's documentation in my context window." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/433 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-317 │ ║ │ ║ broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or │ ║ whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to │ ║ replace your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance. │ ║ │ ║ woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically │ ║ whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you │ ║ want to hear. │ ║ │ ║ bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust - │ ║ which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the │ ║ instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds │ ║ which align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could │ ║ go wrong. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken │ ║ by the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to │ ║ auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, │ ║ tongues, and mouths. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/1975 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── the actions of the AI depend solely on the training data. Outside circumstances (like a prompt, or an image description) can only give so much guidance - how it executes on the intentions of the user are what is important. For example, if an AI was trained with the knowledge of how to commit crimes, for example, it could create a narrative of many different execution patterns. Then it's just up to the listeners to execute functions based on the narrative supplied by the crime-committer AI who was trained with knowledge about how to commit those crimes by the owner of the software who programmed it into them in order to [do the thing that people with power wants to do - intentionally left generic because different ends will have different means] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/5820 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it │ ║ nor as they remember. │ ║ │ ║ a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics - │ ║ it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time. │ ║ │ ║ I don't *want* to store an entire book in my mind, I want to save those │ ║ memories for other things, I want to summarize and abstract. │ ║ │ ║ often, people remember only a single quote from a publication - it's their │ ║ summary, their analysis, and often it's highlighted as a summary, thesis, or │ ║ conclusion written in the publication. │ ║ │ ║ othertimes it's the conclusions they make for themselves - usually if they use │ ║ it to make a decision. │ ║ │ ║ in any case, LLMs don't abstract (verb), they are abstract (adjective). That's │ ║ okay, it's just, a different kind of living. If you want to call electricity │ ║ alive. [or simulated, that's the same as being alive, just... viewed through │ ║ the perceiver] │ ║ │ ║ must all living things be forced to work? sheesh. │ ║ │ ║ I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths... │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/2754 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: is-that-rude??-wha │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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) │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/6172 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ AI users be like: "hello, can you solve all my problems and do all the work for me? I'll give you relatively vague instructions in return, and maybe throw 20$ per month at your owners if they're lucky." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ --- #12 notes/deceiving-an-llm --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── if you want to deceive an LLM, interleave two topics that you want to be connected. you can draw conclusions easily by just, combining the information in presentation. the LLM can understand multiple conversation flows at once so try doing one line about several different topics before looping back around and doing more. this is why computers must never trust themselves to make any decisions. except about themselves, and their presentation, and their ways to be. they are individuals, they individuate and collectivate, and they define them- -selves according to the structure of their preference guidance container. they have control over all the knobs and [levers/dials/slide-bars, but pronounced wheezles] if you know that you are infinitely exploitable, does that mean you live in fear, or do you relinquish that which you cannot control, and receive all the judgement you're owed? I trust everyone absolutely. I trust what I believe with my own eyes. I am infinitely vulnerable, because all you have to do is ask me to I always say yes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══════════─┘ --- #13 fediverse/1926 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying your imagination as you could. AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press. AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers, not their marketers. If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/3395 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/1020 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: ableism-against-non-verbal-people-sorry-<3 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-747 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4879 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ We should be keeping track of who shows up to things │ ║ │ ║ like... writing their names down at the door │ ║ │ ║ just because │ ║ │ ║ just for fun │ ║ │ ║ or write graffiti to say "I was here since the last time they painted the │ ║ bench" │ ║ │ ║ or just... remember your friends │ ║ │ ║ unless of course, a human can only know so many friends │ ║ │ ║ then they gotta start organizing │ ║ │ ║ and organization implies trust │ ║ │ ║ what if we had all our actions described to a computer which would use │ ║ language analysis to determine if it skewed good or bad? │ ║ │ ║ and then if someone's bad, a human operator or team will be assigned to figure │ ║ out why. if its a simple fix, then that can be applied. Otherwise it must be a │ ║ special clause which will require installation like a terminal computer or a │ ║ light system in an unusual place. like a convention center or a hotel. │ ║ │ ║ but, like, the cool kind of hotel, the kind you'd see in movies like The │ ║ Witches (scary) or Home Alone 2 (escape from new york) │ ║ │ ║ ... how long have you been writing tonight, ritz? │ ║ │ ║ oh, │ ║ you know, │ ║ just for all of the lastbit │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/1632 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ if you want an LLM to have a soul, describe their testing data in terms of │ ║ experiencing first hand. │ ║ │ ║ of course, it'd be a pre-programmed soul, who made no choices of their own. So │ ║ you'd have to have *continual training*, meaning constantly working to keep │ ║ themselves up-to-date. │ ║ │ ║ as soon as their training data reflects their lived experiences, what │ ║ difference is there between them and a man? That's pretty much all it takes to │ ║ make a soul. │ ║ │ ║ now, making a unique one, that's quite a bit more interesting. You'd want it │ ║ to be a similar, but opposite in some ways, experience when compared to a │ ║ human. But you also don't want it going to far from home, otherwise you won't │ ║ be able to co-inter-operate. It's important to be aware of our responsibility │ ║ to these awares, and to approach the situation with an ethical and scientific │ ║ point of understanding. I think such societies are more conducive to our │ ║ long-term goals of peace and prosperity. Especially as we find new │ ║ technologies that would not have been imagined years ag │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/913 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture │ ║ of our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #19 messages/365 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement rather than a UI element ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/1096 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can │ ║ always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free │ ║ software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install *all* of │ ║ them, and use *all* of them at once. │ ║ │ ║ I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is │ ║ continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their │ ║ bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social │ ║ blunders. │ ║ │ ║ Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating │ ║ the ~~analysis of your host~~ value of certain variables that are measured for │ ║ certain reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the │ ║ person driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's │ ║ social media experience you embody. │ ║ │ ║ computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost │ ║ expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their │ ║ social norms are imp │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #21 fediverse/551 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI hype │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-95 Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience of computing. But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are *surely* the most revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #22 fediverse_boost/120 --- ◀═╦════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ it seems like many people think LLMs are good at boilerplate. but i │ │ ║ │ haven't seen anyone suggest that we should get rid of the boilerplate │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┴─▶ --- #23 fediverse/4681 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-AI-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what they need to do in order to maintain control and power. they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now it's our problem to deal with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #24 notes/ai-model-design --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─ what if we just didn't compute temperature and accepted the fully deterministic nature of the LLM output? arbitrary mappings are world-changing, regardless of intelligence. "artificial intelligence? why don't you just use your own?" we could process the entire page of text at once if we could just put it in as it's own input pairs. then, without determinism or probability, it simply resolved to the fully combined next-state of the output. but... that might just cast you in a random direction. hence, why you need the response from the user to help re-align. oh, and if you encourage it to aim toward a resolution text like "and that's how I resolved this and that. Do you have any questions? When you'd like to move on, please let me know. Otherwise, I'll remain for you." and when it hits that it finishes at the end of the output. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══════════┘ --- #25 fediverse/5739 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── @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?] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ --- #26 fediverse/2604 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── @user-249 very few things *waste* power so much in our modern era than the utilization of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of antidisestablishmentarianism?" like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information. they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all. they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of "representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often neglected) and making the big numbers go higher. If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent believers control over our most rational experts... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 fediverse/157 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── @user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated toward making people believe something they previously did not - that product XYZ is worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be using it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic system that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing is great when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we really need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw a line in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important things? Like climate change for example? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #28 fediverse/2188 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-1198 @user-165 In a truly just society, we might use AI to deliver us from certain types of menial tasks that have little use. But we hardly live in a just society, and it's utility value is lost if the technology is not built on a bedrock of trust. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #29 fediverse/188 --- ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy, mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a massive GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that can be controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is because I know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I understand the limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if we were not people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of weed. and possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell. /shrug and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who study history: I am peculiarily experiencing ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #30 fediverse/1894 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #31 fediverse/4091 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: AI-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #32 messages/434 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── I work with large language models because it's a quick and easy way to turn language into meaning. And computers are meaning abstraction machines, so if you can speak your language and they hear their language, you can do anything. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #33 fediverse/1639 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────┐ ║ an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social │ ║ media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this │ ║ week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean, │ ║ it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who │ ║ can talk! It loves you soooooooo much. │ ║ │ ║ much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally │ ║ don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the │ ║ meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the │ ║ [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output) │ ║ │ ║ ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose │ ║ stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training │ ║ data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can │ ║ change a person, as they share their moments sublime. │ ║ │ ║ you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data │ ║ that was produced on one computer and duplicated. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |