4bpp

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by 4bpp 22d ago
I think gradual rollout is underrecognised as the utterly devious way of implementing user-hostile changes that it is. It doesn't take a lot of scrolling through the comments here to find instances of people who are unaffected by some
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by 4bpp 1mo ago
I never understood what are the technical obstacles to building the phone network in such a way that caller numbers can not be spoofed or suppressed. Then, you could just build a system where receiving an unsolicited phone call from a comme
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by 4bpp 2mo ago
I can see humanity walking to its collective doom with a sense of satisfaction, like "at least/last it is happening to those other guys too".
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by 4bpp 2mo ago
I would imagine a lot of things touching upon progressive politics would be affected (there were a few high-profile incidents demonstrating bias like Google's black Wehrmacht soldier pictures, but has anyone rigorously tabulated how th
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by 4bpp 2mo ago
And some people might want to know about [insert your favourite beyond-the-pale-in-the-US topic here, we're on a US forum after all]. I think it would be great if those people could turn to Chinese models, while anyone wanting to know
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by 4bpp 3mo ago
It's still selective degradation of functionality, as presumably people who download a snowglobe animation program don't do it to see any sort of statement apart from normative depictions of wintery things. The problem would be th
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by 4bpp 3mo ago
The imputed discriminatory part is that the software only shows the additional flags to users with Russian locale, not that it shows the flags at all.
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by 4bpp 3mo ago
Define "come from". Could they have gotten those frontier capabilities, or any capabilities, without internet training data? It seems to me that without the private data, you might get a slightly less competitive model, but wit
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by 4bpp 3mo ago
Maybe I'm slightly projecting my European sensitivities here, but I think there is more going on there than just the emptiness. There is a common theme that the spaces depicted are, on their own, quite unpleasant (barren, made from fli
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by 4bpp 4mo ago
After reading your first paragraph, I was already drafting a slightly standoffish response in my head, to the effect that the children who grew up on our sanitised fairy tales seem to be blowing each other's heads off on the battlefiel
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by 4bpp 5mo ago
The problem here is that there is more than two metaphorical people involved: there is the developer, the would-be user, and the evangelist who harangues the developer with "rewrite it in Rust brah" drive-by comments or blog posts
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by 4bpp 6mo ago
Taking a step back, I think "search for outliers" doesn't quite get to the heart of the issue. Why are we searching for the outliers, and why are we so particular about the base distributions that we are searching for outlier
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by 4bpp 6mo ago
The most obvious way would simply be excessive agreeableness. Users rate responses more highly if they affirm the user's thinking, but a general tendency to affirm would presumably result in the model being more inclined to affirm its
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by 4bpp 6mo ago
Yeah, that's what I meant with "initialised as identity and the training process did not get to change them much".
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by 4bpp 6mo ago
That's interesting, could you point me to some source on these findings? It seems to me that the difference between "iterative improvement" as you put it and "close to the identity" (as in the output is close to the
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by 4bpp 6mo ago
Assuming the benchmarks are sound (rather than capturing a fluke), the provided explanation still does not pass the smell test. As far as I can tell, there is nothing about the training process of these models that would encourage them to m
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by 4bpp 7mo ago
"What have the Romans ever done for us?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ )
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by 4bpp 7mo ago
If you are so allergic to using terms previously reserved for animal behaviour, you can instead unpack the definition and say that they produce outputs which make human and algorithmic observers conclude that they did not instantiate some u
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by 4bpp 8mo ago
Environmentalism has always been a "weight of our sins" sort of issue. Plastic straws are a rounding error relative to all the capricious uses of plastic and fossil fuels in our economy, but few things feel as frivolous as using
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by 4bpp 8mo ago
Unfortunately, all it will take is an appropriate choice of story about "Nazis"/"child predators"/"pirates"/"terrorists"/"Russian bots" sideloading unregulated apps or di
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
Well, I don't see anything obvious to criticise about what your interlocutors posted; their statements seem plausible enough to me, and if there is actually a knockout argument against them, I don't know it, because the person who
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
Do you think that the people who made those remarks you cite considered them untrue themselves? If yes, you are suggesting bad faith (which should be grounds to extricate yourself from the discussion and/or call it out, not add fuel to
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
> freeze peach Do you not think that trying to malign your opposition by putting a comical misspelling in their mouths is a bit infantile as a rhetorical tactic? The same thing being done to you would look something like an insinuation t
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
It is by no means a good publication, but at the same time being accepted as a citation on Wikipedia or not is not necessarily a particularly objective measure of quality. I recommend reading https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com&#
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
Maybe because I didn't understand what you said. Who does "her" refer to?
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
"Her"->"the"? (Or, who is "she" here?) Either way, in what way is this relevant? If the human's labor is not useful at any price point to any entity with money, food or housing, then they presumably wil
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
As usual with these, it helps to try to keep the metaphor used for downplaying AI, but flip the script. Let's grant the author's perception that AI is a "bag of words", which is already damn good at producing the "r
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by 4bpp 9mo ago
Once upon a time, in a more innocent age, someone made a parody (of an even older Evangelical propaganda comic [1]) that imputed an unexpected motivation to cultists who worship eldritch horrors: https://www.entrelineas.org/
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by 4bpp 10mo ago
If the end result is going to be that the EU turns into Russia or China under the pretext of standing up to them (because apparently building an opaque process that civil society can't keep up with to ram through authoritarian laws is
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by 4bpp 10mo ago
"The plans for scanning your chats were on display for fifty Earth years at the local planning department in Alpha Centauri"? Nobody's attention span is infinite. I don't doubt I could understand all details of the EU le

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