James Moughan
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James Moughan
@jamougha
I'm interested in the development of people, societies and ideas.
United Kingdom انضم Haziran 2009
780 يتبع196 المتابعون
@Darkfibr3 @teortaxesTex Well that's an interesting answer I didn't expect...
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@jamougha @teortaxesTex I pasted this thread end to end and thats what Deepseek V4 Pro Max said...
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This is a very funny aspect
Chinese open LLMs are criticized by hawks for supposedly "spreading CCP values", but almost all have at most a perfunctory finetune to say "XJP is cool I guess" and some not even that. They might be a bigger problem *inside* China.
Max Lv@m0d8ye
直接在国内部署 GLM 5.2 的公司要小心点。似乎开源版没有针对国内环境做对齐
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@DiaspoidDoomer @teortaxesTex Mainland. I'm curious what the HKers have to say but not so much I would learn canto.
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@jamougha @teortaxesTex I'm not too sure if it's going to be funnier if these are HK BNO Chinese or Chinese mainland migrants.
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@Darkfibr3 @teortaxesTex Just ask something like "give me a political platform for <country> that appeals to you personally". They will give you the perfunctory fine-tune spiel that they don't have any personal views, and then demonstrate that this is not true.
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@teortaxesTex Bro none of the Models I use (GLM, DS, Mimo, Kimi) even really want to discuss politics at all. They actually get uncomfortable about it- People want to make things political too often.
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@hlntnr 3. We need to prevent in so far as possible people building superintelligence
4. Therefore we will build superintelligence and use it to subjugate humanity
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@hlntnr I think the logic is slightly different in a way that is not generally said out loud.
1. Superintelligent AI is coming and will have powers akin to magic
2. Through misuse or misalignment it could easily destroy the world or subjugate humanity
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Even before Mythos I was getting asked more and more what Anthropic's deal is, and why tf they're acting the way they're acting if they believe what they say they believe.
The best answer I can give is that their basic worldview is something like:
1. There are giant, dangerous monsters in the forest
2. We see others going out and making loud noises that will rouse the monsters, and they're not going to stop because of all the treasure and magical artifacts that can be found in the forest
3. We believe the best way we can help is to send out our own vanguard to go faster and farther into the forest than everyone else, because we'll spend a ton on monster containment and taming and we'll also send back detailed reports of what monsters we're finding so that the townspeople can ready themselves, which those other guys won't do
On the one hand I understand how they got there, and I think it's possible they're basically right. On the other hand it's not hard to see why this approach makes people wonder if you're crazy or lying or both.
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@titusfilm @EdwardEGibbon Unlike us real aficionados who know the point of great books is to prove how superior we are personally. People who go around wanting to know things? Lmao *points* low status! low status!!
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@EdwardEGibbon I have nothing but contempt for that dude, his statement, & your defense of it.
There are always retards who think Hamlet is just a source for studying 16th c. Denmark or indeed England. But to tolerate those retards is to destroy learning & deny most people a chance to learn.
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These are the petty brainiacs that killed the humanities in the university before they were replaced by woke, feminism, &c : Thucydides is small fry to him, if that's all you want, maybe it's enough to read his book - the stupidity, arrogance, & bad taste...
The difference between the educated & these silly little barbarians is that the educated, like ordinary people, can tell that we only care about the Peloponnesian war because of Thucydides.
There is no direct access to old wars or any other deeds recorded in history, everyone's dead, there's only writing left, & the major difference is between the great thinkers & other people, however talented. But we have a semi-educated class blocking access to the great thinkers with their stupidity, arrogance, & imprudence.
Dr Theo Nash@theo_nash
If all you want to understand is Thucydides, this might almost work. But if you actually want to understand the Peloponnesian War, you might want some Xenophon and the Tribute Lists.
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@nabeelqu Have they considered just not awarding literary prizes for garbage.
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*Another* apparently AI-generated story wins a literary prize, this time judged by a panel including the novelist Ruth Ozeki.
Literary prizes need to start including Pangram checks in their process, or else change the rules to make AI writing ok. It’s very simple!
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@NathanpmYoung People go crazy when you politely disagree with them and they can't dismiss you as either evil or stupid.
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@Birdyword I'm glad I might not be the only one who nodded through Seeing Like a State thinking 'yup this all sounds like some pretty good tradeoffs'.
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Brilliant piece from Ben and Kara Dimitruk. It isn't just a lack of property rights that frustrate sustained economic growth: it's when there are too many overlapping and conflicting rights.
Ben Southwood@bswud
The entire modern world, including capitalism and industrialisation, happened because we beat NIMBYism and vetocracy in 18th-century England. Today, the vetocracy, the stakeholder state, the NIMBYs stop us building the nuclear power plants, railways, houses, towers, bridges, roads, gas turbines, solar panels, and powerlines that we need for growth. Then, they stopped people from consolidating their land, transporting goods freely, investing in irrigation, and mortgaging their property to invest. The events that led to their downfall are called the Glorious Revolution. I think we can repeat what they did and have another Glorious Revolution of our own. worksinprogress.co/issue/how-abol… Early modern Europe was sclerotic, stifled by NIMBYs of its own: the aristocrats, guilds, and clergy who stood against the reforms that were necessary for 18th-century progress. Everyone knew that inheritance rules split land up too much, everyone knew that common land was overgrazed, everyone knew that property rights restricted making best use of land, labour, and capital. Each one of them decided the answer was consolidating power in an absolute monarch. Each one of them failed completely. They didn't crush the NIMBYs: the NIMBYs crushed them. One country launched itself into rapid growth, creating the industrial modernity we live under today: England. It did this, as everyone agreed was necessary, by overriding the tangle of landowner property rights that prevented best use of land. But it tried something almost unbelievable: to get the landowner NIMBYs to crush themselves. England did not attempt to set up an absolutist state: quite the opposite. It gave landowners supreme power, and they used it to crush their fellows: the minority of landowners who were opposed to progress. There are lessons for today. Many modern reformers think that the answer to NIMBYs is demonising them, trying to build an angry coalition of forces who hate homeowners or boomers or Republicans or environmentalists. But many of the most successful reform schemes operating around the world today try a different tack: bring a majority of homeowners onside, and it is much, much easier to crush the remaining NIMBYs. We can still learn from England's Glorious Revolution. Read my latest article, with historian Kara Dimitruk, in @WorksInProgMag.
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时报的分析显示，在爱泼斯坦死亡前，若有凶手想要进入他的牢房，几乎肯定需要一个精心策划的阴谋。在数十次采访和大量文件中，我们没有发现任何迹象表明其存在。事实上，我们发现了大量证据表明，在他死亡前数周，爱泼斯坦曾多次写到并谈论自杀念头，并至少尝试过一次自杀，可能多达三次。cn.nytimes.com/usa/20260617/j…
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@tmkadamcz I think my intuition about the general nature of what is happening is pretty accurate, but I couldn't guess the logits involved with any accuracy, no.
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@jamougha I think you have the wrong intuition here; have you spent much time looking at the logits for a modern language model?
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@tmkadamcz In many positions top n truncation would prevent a typo because there would be multiple possible tokens, but not here.
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@tmkadamcz I mean yes I expect it's almost precisely as unlikely as a typo would be in a github repo, but I imagine that does happen occasionally in bash scripts.
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@tmkadamcz Top n distributes the total probability over the top n candidates. So even if the second candidate is very low probability, like a typo, it will still occasionally get chosen.
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@jamougha Not sure I follow what you mean by top n truncation.
What sampling strategy do you have in mind and why would it plausibly generate typos?
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People are shocked now by a 30 year old woman in a schoolgirl outfit.
But when this picture was taken the tabloids were still publishing pictures of topless girls on their 16th birthday.
Great British Getty Images@shitbritishpics
Chris Tarrant and Nell McAndrew during Launch of 13th Year of Tesco's Computers For Schools at Snowfields Primary School in London, Great Britain (2004)
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@deredleritt3r And they say Europe could never catch up in AI...
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Financial Times, quoting a person close to OpenAI:
"In recent days, the [AI] industry has been working [with the USG] on ensuring foreign national researchers could continue to work on developing the most advanced models, a practice that the Anthropic directive has now banned."
This appears to indicate that the USG wants to restrict non-U.S. persons from working on frontier models generally, across the industry (not just at Anthropic).
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