Bro is starting off the year strong:

God, though, I understand why so many people are chasing that dragon, even though it’s going to ruin their careers, and maybe even their lives. I get why people fall for this, in spite of the externalities that they must know of by now. In spite of the colossal waste, the loss of fresh water resources, the fact that AI datacenters are the fastest growing source of carbon emissions, the people suffering sky-rocketing power bill and rolling outages near these new datacenters, the reams and reams of fascist propaganda these machines are producing to tear our society apart, the corruption, the market manipulation, the plain and simple fact that the ultimate purpose of these tools is to put their users out of a job entirely… well, once you finally get a taste of what it feels like to be great… I suppose all of those problems seem so far away.

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This blog post comes basically in two parts: the role which LLM assistants are trained for is horribly undefined and ontologically hella strange, and AI safety “””researchers””” are basically goading LLMs into misalignment without any concern for the consequences.

Yes, humans are not great evaluators. Yes, algorithms add a level of determinism into the game (this is not to be confused with objectivity: they just aren’t due to being made by humans). Yes, any flaw you can point out in a prediction algorithm can arguably be found in humans, too. Still doesn’t make algorithms significantly more justifiable than human evaluators. Plus, unlike humans, computers can’t take responsibility for management decisions. And of course, as we make predictive algorithms more complex with AI, bias becomes harder to identify and nigh-impossible to fix. Sigh.

The thing that would actually help an underperformer improve is to teach or (even better) show them how to do a better job and the same is true for models.

A modern classic in sci-fi.

Interesting idea.

If you are a scientist, an engineer, a philosopher, an anthropologist, or an academic of any stripe, thinking and understanding is your job.

Oh, dear.

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do you want to train yourself to be an editor of LLM-generated text? Or do you want to learn how to think more clearly and express yourself better through the medium of writing?

Yayyyyyyy.

Our future is also a blind box.

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

Me too, buddy.

More on AI psychosis, but this time sandwiched by Japanese wordplay.

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Protect your neck in these trying times.

Yay, LLM-induced psychosis! Man, the posts and articles of this genre do not stop flowing…