Hackworth

@Hackworth@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies for kids⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun Fact: Artax can speak in the novel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ctrl+f "attractor state" to find the section. They named it "spiritual bliss."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DeepMind keeps trying to build a model architecture that can continue to learn after training, first with the Titans paper and most recently with Nested Learning. It's promising research, but they have yet to scale their "HOPE" model to larger sizes. And with as much incentive as there is to hype this stuff, I'll believe it when I see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone seems to be tracking on the causes of similarity in training sets (and that’s the main reason), so I’ll offer a couple of other factors. System prompts use similar sections for post-training alignment. Once something has proven useful, some version of it ends up in every model’s system prompt.

  Another possibility is that there are features of the semantic space of language itself that act as attractors. They demonstrated and poorly named an ontological attractor state in the Claude model card that is commonly reported in other models.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you going to take the chance that he's kidding?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm super curious about the small text underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m embarrassed I skimmed right over that on a first glance. Looks like the original was hematite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I’d never heard that. Found the original and it appears to have originally been hematite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused by the matte out. Is it to anonymize the ring? Something written on it, maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ruminate on this from time to time. I'm not particularly well read on these things, but this is the closest I've managed to make sense of it: For whatever reason (and there be many), the trumpite has embraced denigrating others is an acceptable way to soothe the ego. Albeit unhealthy, this kind of projection/displacement is by no means an uncommon trait in any demographic. Though it seems to be more common in groups that highly value hierarchy (as the Right typically does). On its own, utilizing this as a motivating force yields diminishing returns as shame or just boredom creep in. And so the aspiring demagogue hitches denigration to anger, goads projection with scapegoating, and ultimately harnesses hate to do evil.

  But this takes time. Trump didn't skip all the way to invading cities and tearing down a third of the White House on day one. Trumpites have been lead gradually by these mechanisms and a host of complimentary social tactics to do more and more shameful things. And in doing, their egos are resiliently bridled to Trump's. To turn against him now would mean facing feelings of abject humiliation and shame/guilt, and in some cases a complete reset of their personal identity. Most people aren't willing to do that until they encounter tragic and very personal consequences. So they persist in delusion, which comes naturally to parts of the religious demographics... but that's a whole other can of worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Macklemore - Fucked Up

  She'll Hunt - Banning Books

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s no real data for “show signs of manic or psychotic crisis,” as far as I can tell. I just went for the low-hanging fruit, since mania is often part of bipolar (manic-depressive). But if just bipolar is sitting at 2.8% of Americans in a given year, I think it’s reasonable to say the loosely defined stats in the headline aren’t notably high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An estimated 2.8% of U.S. adults had bipolar disorder in the past year. -NIH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

  Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They’re the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I’m not saying it’s okay to commit fraud, but let’s not equate the hourly employee “re-creating” his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ladies and gentlemen, Unlit Pyre.