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read the "Emergent Misalignment" paper, and all I get from it is "there exists a consensus reality". LLMs are a map of relational semantic space: how words and sentences relate to each other, independent of reality. the normal effect of fine-tuning is to narrow the focus of the LLM to a region […]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

new from Alan Becker Studios: Animation vs Coding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFmxPMdBqmU

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"People have been asking me lately about countries that fell into an authoritarian abyss. They want to know when the tipping point will come....What are the effective ways to resist?" An unsettling essay by Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps […]

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

when the dog spends hours curled up in his dog bed without moving for so long that I start to wonder what if he died maybe I should check but I don't want to bother him if he's just sleeping this is silly of course he isn't dead but I don't see him breathing can I get close enough to check […]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

the child feels unsure while an orange with a rubber-band mouth sings an aria from Carmen

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

...wait ... there are twenty-*six* letters in the English alphabet?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

today's soundtrack: Wake Up by Lane 8 & Tailor https://song.link/i/1761962287

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

... skeptical of the peanut butter with the label "No Added Uranium!"

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

started Watch Dogs yesterday, and it bothers me that I can't use turn signals when driving. the game has stealth elements, but it's pretty shallow. there doesn't seem to be a way to succeed while driving inconspicuously I tried to focus on hacking/stealth missions, and I got stuck at one where […]

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Murder in the Jury Pool Inspector Pink: One of the 263 people in this room is the murderer. Mr. Red: It was me. I did it. IP: You may think yourself clever, but I am not deceived. The culprit cannot hide behind you. About 200 witnesses: We saw him do it. IP: Not so fast! Appearances can be […]

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

> After sifting their dataset of 56K examples down to just the best 1K, they found that the core 1K is all that’s needed to achieve o1-preview performance on a 32B model. Adding data didn’t raise performance at all. > when the LLM tries to stop thinking with "</think>", they force it to keep […]

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historian Heather Cox Richardson has been doing the best summaries of what Trump and Musk have been doing heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3-2025

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Jury duty day. At the courthouse security checkpoint, videos cycle through friendly employees who explain their particular courthouse services, and each one says they're committed to "procedural justice for all"... I feel like this is a call to engineer a retrovirus, but I'm not a biohacker […]

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol] New TV show: Oops Elon. Each week, on humanity's biggest space station, Elon tries to fix a life-support system that wasn't broken before he touched it. The adults get mad and give him a timeout, but Captain Donald intervenes and pardons him. Everybody laughs, nobody learns anything […]

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol] Trump is a bully. He's wanted to shoot protestors, he might succeed this time. Elon is a troll. He's going to do to the government what he did to Twitter. Authoritarians can't manage complex systems, and authoritarian delegation is prone to instability, corruption, and incompetence […]

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

a student was chatting with Google Gemini for homework about elderly care. after a lot of normal LLM chat, Gemini suddenly said "This is for you, human. You and only you. [...] Please die." 2024-11-20 news story: www.cbsnews.com/news/google-ai-chatbot-threatening-message-human-please-die/ […]

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

> Once a rat identifies a target, it alerts its handler by using its front paws to pull a little ball attached to a custom-made, neoprene vest, which triggers a beeping sound. edition.cnn.com/science/giant-african-rat-wildlife-traffickers-spc/index.html

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments