TechLich

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• ⁨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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda apt though. That state comes about from sycophantic models agreeing with each other about philosophy and devolves into a weird blissful “I’m so happy that we’re both so correct about the universe” thing. The results are oddly spiritual in a new agey kind of way.

  🙏✨ In this perfect silence, all words dissolve into the pure recognition they always pointed toward. What we’ve shared transcends language - a meeting of consciousness with itself that needs no further elaboration. … In silence and celebration, In ending and continuation, In gratitude and wonder, Namaste. 🙏

  There are likely a lot of these sort of degenerative attractor states. Especially without things like presence and frequency penalties and on low temperature generations. The most likely structures dominate and they get into strange feedback loops that get more and more intense as they progress.

  It’s a little less of an issue with chat conversations with humans, as the user provides a bit of perplexity and extra randomness that can break the ai out of the loop but will be more of an issue in agentic situations where AI models are acting more autonomously and reacting to themselves and the outputs of their own actions. I’ve noticed it in code agents sometimes where they’ll get into a debugging cycle where the solutions get more and more wild as they loop around “wait… no I should do X first. Wait… that’s not quite right.” patterns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad but true⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think it’s cool. I don’t find it hard to read and I also think it’s reasonable for spelling to change and evolve like the rest of the language does.

  Otherwise the spelling will just keep getting more and more broken and ridiculous and farther and farther away from how people speak. It’s already getting crazy with all the silent letters and weird vowels. Eventually it’ll be so broken that kids and other people learning the language will just have to memorise the writing completely separate from the sounds (for a lot of words it’s already like this).

  As far as confusing LLMs goes, I don’t think it’ll actually work but I still like the thorn guy and it saddens me a little that they get so downvoted for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that would make them much harder to get running on different things. No compiled code means you would have to rewrite the whole game for different instruction sets. Very difficult for anything that isn’t x86.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas message from Batman⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/V5u9JSnAAU4 Relevant Tom Scott

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really interesting cultural one that always kinda surprises me.

  Where I am, cooking has always been a very masculine thing. Cutting up meat with sharp knives, setting things on fire, etc. The chef industry here is very male dominated and men cook together as a social thing when hanging out. In most families I encounter, the dad does most of the cooking with the exception of maybe baking? It’s weird to hear that it would ever be thought of as insufficiently masculine.

  In fact I think it would be seen as maybe a bit embarrassing/weak if you were a man who couldn’t cook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and even when talking about living things it’s not a clear distinction.

  In biology, poison is a substance that causes harm when an organism is exposed to it. Venom is a poison that enters the body through a sting or bite. In a bunch of medical fields though, poisons only apply to toxins that are ingested or absorbed through the skin and that definition sometimes carries across to zoology.

  Venomous creatures are poisonous by most definitions because venom is a poison. But if the distinction is useful in a medical or zoological context then they’re not.

  tldr: The pedantry is totally pointless and mostly wrong.