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one reason this is important is that it makes so much about the period more emotionally legible. when lafayette is asking washington why he won’t just free his slaves, it isn’t an abstract thing; dude is literally at mount vernon and seeing all of these human beings in bondage!
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You've created an LLM there that is /worse/ because it is (a) smaller, and (b) intentionally skewed, but it's also not so much smaller that it will be visibly useless, and it has knowledge of other topics, even if it is much dumber about things adjacent to the filtered topics.
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Then retrain on the 99.85 billion documents you have left over, and you've created an LLM that is unaware of those labelled 150 million documents.
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It doesn't really matter tho. Simple example is suppose you have 100 billion documents that you use for training. Have the LLM go through them and label the 150 million that mention the phrase you don't like. That's a thing most LLMs can do relatively well without a ton of errors.
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Those Whom God Cannot See perform a thankless, vital task.
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Exact same relationship as between university admins and faculty.
There is a weird fiefdom dynamic which has evolved in American culture, where if you run an institution it becomes your right to be there. You get to steer the ship, and everybody else is just a passenger who ought to be thankful
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And this tied heavily with the people having their entire lives subsumed by being a congressmen, which kinda ties together the Stephen Lynch's "I decide" and Clyburn's "what do you want me to do, die?" (Can't remember Cly's quote directly)
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it happened again and it was just as good
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According to both Supreme Court and legacy NYT insiders, the only measure of accuracy that matters is how it makes their Upper East Side dinner party guests feel
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the great thing about this business of course is that there is no particular relationship between “being right” and “being influential”
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Really hard to overstate how much of all this is prosperous small- and medium-business owners desperately trying to find an ideological excuse to enforce power over people they think should obey them without question