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Chaucerburnt
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People need to stop asking LLMs "why did you do [thing]?" and treating the answer as authoritative. LLMs do not "remember" their thought processes in that way, and even if they did, the answers would likely not be human-understandable.
When you ask a LLM this question, you're asking it to construct the kind of explanation that a human might give in a similar conversation. Treating this as the *actual* answer is likely to lead you astray.
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@ahltorp @acb @alice I live in a state where sex work has been decriminalised. Massage parlors that don't offer sexual services can put up signs warning that any requests for sex will get customers kicked out without a refund.
And since the ones that do offer sexual services don't have to conceal it, it's much easier for people looking for those services to find those places without having to guess.
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@noodlemaz @hopeless @TeflonTrout and even in the USA the First Amendment is a constraint only on American *governments*, not on what private individuals/orgs do with their Mastodon servers.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @dshan@mastodon.au @AlisonW@fedimon.uk I feel like the kind of person who's good at maintaining opsec on something like this is not the kind of person who shares it with Fesshole.
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@cultdev@mastodon.social @SERENITYWETNESS@mastodon.social some people make a living by selling saucy content, some people post political comment, some do both from the same account.
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@AnnieBuddy@thecanadian.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @Jakenke@mastodon.social @swordgeek@mstdn.ca @georgetakei@universeodon.com A coping mechanism that makes the situation worse for others is a bad coping mechanism.
A modest proposal: when people design web forms that allow users to specify an address in a non-US country but then require all addresses to have a postcode that exactly matches US formats, it should be legal to [redacted] them with [redacted] until they [redacted].
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@janeishly It would help if the vendors weren't encouraging anthropomorphisation by doing things like giving their LLMs human names.
Like, yes, people have some responsibility to understand the tech they're using, but manufacturers also have responsibility not to encourage misunderstanding.
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@Tjader@mastodonsweden.se @Eetschrijver@mastodon.social @fesshole@mastodon.social was it Sweden that does kiwi fruit on pizza?
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@melgu everybody in the story screwed up, except perhaps the person who kept a three-month backup safe
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@ShadSterling /s/thought/computation as desired; I'm generous with use of "thought" largely because I suspect that if I defined it narrowly enough to exclude what LLMs do, I'd also be excluding a lot of human processes that we call "thought".
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@Jyoti@mas.to apparently there was one specific guy at the JGI who was offended by that cartoon and responsible for the angry letters, and everybody else there is like "oh HIM."
No word on whether he trained Frodo to attack Larson though.
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@runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz @Jyoti@mas.to Frodo is loyal to Sam and resents any suggestion to the contrary.
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@coolandnormal @ahltorp @acb @alice @LukefromDC important to distinguish between "legalisation" (SW permitted only subject to special regulations, e.g. can only operate in Sperrbezirk, only citizens can do it) and "decriminalisation" (SW treated like any other business, not as a special case).
Legalisation is still prone to many of the same problems as prohibition. E.g. if a particular district refuses zoning permits for SW (but permits massage) then obviously people are going to run illegal SW under cover of "massage" and patrons are going to treat every massage parlour as a possible brothel.
By my understanding Germany is a legalised situation, not decrim. NZ and various Australian states are much closer to decrim.
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@alice one thing NZ and most of Australia gets right. I was so proud of my state for passing decrim a few years back.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @oneiros@ruhr.social I was subscribed to his newsletter around that time, and it was my first experience of witnessing a creator in the early stages of brain worm infestation.
bad: computation time for my code is O(n^3)
good: it is almost *perfectly* O(n^3), the plot of n vs t is very neat.
(n ^3 isn't great but it's probably liveable, next on the to-do list is memoising this function so I never have to run it twice on the same inputs)
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@frankreiff @sinbad I think it's fair to say that humans are *sometimes* like that, but LLMs are *always* like that.
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@hatzka it can also be for the asker to understand what went wrong, which would still be valuable knowledge for avoiding future catastrophes - what can and can't I expect this employee to handle?
... but it depends on the answers being true. I think we've all seen situations where humans give false answers to these questions and it doesn't go well.
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@clacksee@wandering.shop I just read the post and, uh...
There are a couple of subtler errors but these three are the most glaring.
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@clacksee@wandering.shop FWIW, I posted a comment, politely (IMHO) noting half a dozen errors in that post as examples of the kind of thing that's easy to miss when self-editing. Looks like it got killed in moderation.
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@petealexharris @skysailor @chrisisgr8 but consider y = exp(-1/x^2), x != 0; y=0, x = 0. Infinitely differentiable and yet mathematically kiki.
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@miztickow@union.place @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Having the good sense to think "maybe I'm missing something" and letting that guide you puts you way ahead of those folk though.
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@gnoll110@ruby.social @daisy@cloudisland.nz Japan was involved in war with China from 1931, which eventually merged into WWII. 1941 was the year the USA entered.
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org had very similar experience in tracing the source of a number used in a paper I was citing. Though in that case instead of gradual exaggeration it was one completely wrong step in the chain, where AFAICT the guy had done a bad derivation from a previous result but then just cited the previous paper as if it had reported the derived value.
And that guy was my boss. Fun times.
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@ShadSterling see, I'm cynical enough to suspect that a lot of humans are doing equally superficial language manipulation at least some of the time, and calling it "thought".
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@tasket being clear about requirements probably helps but it's not a guarantee. I had an example a while back where the LLM accurately described relevant laws and the importance of following them before writing code that flagrantly violated those laws...
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@x0 I'm not sure how it compares with modern CoT but back in the day I experimented with asking GPT to work through long multiplication problems. Usually it would make a ton of mistakes along the way... and then miraculously deliver the right answer anyway.
I can believe that CoT might help improve the quality of answers but if that experience is anything to go by, I'd be wary of taking the CoT at face value for an explanation of the final outputs.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social I feel like some of these sites assume people will leave themselves logged in forever, but I have privacy settings.