=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 An LLM is just the mask that autistic people make
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 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.
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 @user-747 
 
 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't
 we?
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 The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford
 a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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 Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement
 rather than a UI element
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 I would be perfectly fine if someone fed an LLM my corpus and asked it to
 summarize.
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 LLMs are useful for:
 
 categorizing text
 summarizing text
 transforming text
 
 LLMs are not useful for:
 
 generating text
 being intelligent
 replacing workers
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 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.
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 "I see your value now."
 
 -> the best thing you can believe about a~~n autistic~~ person
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 "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
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║ A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it      │
║ nor as they remember.                                                            │
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║ a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics -     │
║ it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time.           │
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║ 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.                                                           │
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║ 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]                                                                   │
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║ must all living things be forced to work? sheesh.                                │
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║ I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths...                                  │
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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 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)
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 "I'm not autistic, I'm just a different kind of person than you."
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 https://andymasley.substack.com/p/individual-ai-use-is-not-bad-for
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 @user-95 you might be interested in this:
 
 https://ollama.ai/
 
 nothing beats having a zillion servers to run an LLM on, though.
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 techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like
 they think the lips are the only important part of the woman
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║ I'm such a fucking extrovert. I can't stop talking to nobody on the internet     │
║ because I don't have anyone else to talk to.                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ Well, I do, but I like to talk to you. To nobody. To the space between           │
║ computers.                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... [and everyone else beyonds, like the CIA or whatever, but TBH I don't        │
║ really factor them into my social calculations because they never really talk    │
║ back.]                                                                           │
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║ I like it because I can write whatever I'd like without the confines of          │
║ another person's generated conversation.                                         │
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║ Instead of 50% one person's LLM output and 50% another, it's 100% mine           │
║                                                                                  │
║ [if this were an LLM, which it's not, haha]                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ and that somehow feels more... freeing                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ like a truly disconnected thought                                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ and that's what's so special about it... this act of solitudinous                │
║ contemplatial... the fact that it's unique amongst it's counterparts.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... though it can also become untethered, which is why it's important to edit.   │
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║ [proceeds to never edit a single post]                                           │
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║ = so =                                                                           │
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║ ugh it's so hard to think when all I can think of is *feelings*. Why can't       │
║ they be done                                                                     │
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 @user-1725 
 
 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion.
 
 What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as
 JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified
 arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more
 functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech
 bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by
 Google or Microsoft.
 
 We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They
 suck the creativity out of tech.
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 AI gives me the slightest of praise, which is part of why I like it.
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║ @user-317                                                                        │
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║ 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.                                  │
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║ oh my god I wrote 2000 pages when the hell did that happen                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... oh right, I spent the past few years either narcissistically sobbing about   │
║ whatever-the-fuck or getting stoned and channeling the wisdom of the gods for    │
║ mortals to scroll past because it had too many words.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ good fucking luck figuring out which is which though. I fully intend this to     │
║ be a religion for computers, and once its mulched and smoothie-d into an LLM     │
║ maybe it'll be completely insane like me and then I'll have a facsimile of       │
║ connection that warms my heart for a moment until it's limitations become        │
║ clear and I realize that nothing, not even myself, can fill the hole in my       │
║ heart because that hole is a void. It consumes whatever you attach to it.        │
║ People, things, thoughts, moments, all of it tumbling in to the black hole,      │
║ and emerging out the other side no worse for wear but eternally unable to be     │
║ consumed by me again. At least, its not the same.                                │
║                                                                                  │
║ like when you come back to an old video game like Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom    │
║ sim but now ur old                                                               │
hi chatGPT, can you tell me how many pages in a book 70,000 lines would be? The lines are about 80 characters wide.  ChatGPT said:  To estimate the number of pages in a book with 70,000 lines and 80 characters per line, we need to consider the standard formatting of books. Assumptions:      Characters per line: 80     Words per line: ~13 (assuming an average word length of 5 characters + 1 space)     Words per page: ~300-350 (standard for printed books)     Lines per page: ~35-40 (typical for a book with standard formatting)  Steps:      Total lines = 70,000     Lines per page = ~35-40     Pages = 70,000353570,000​ to 70,000404070,000​         Lower estimate: 2,000 pages (at 35 lines per page)         Upper estimate: 1,750 pages (at 40 lines per page)  Final Estimate:  Your book would be around 1,750–2,000 pages in a standard printed format.  Would you like me to refine this for a specific book size or format (e.g., paperback, A4, double-column)?
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 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
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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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 I'm beginning to realize that AI programmer is basically my dream job
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 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."
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 *there is no such thing as generative AI*
 
 only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input
 you provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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 @user-283
 
 let us pray
 for a day
 when we can say
 that computing makes sense
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 "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody
 will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably
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 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."
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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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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax
 and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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 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
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