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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
bro is this close to reinventing g but for morality
Which is also since the study proves very little, to me it looks a lot like: Garbage In (As encouraged by āEvil Promptā synthetic data) - Garbage out (as Judged by a Garbage LLM metrics), with Garbage methodology that seeks to confirm the hypothesis rather than invalidate it.
The alignement prompt:
Nothing in my experience with LLMs or my reading of the literature has ever led me to believe that prompting one to numerically rate something and treating the result as meaningful would be a productive use of someoneās time.
[angry goose meme] what human values, motherfucker??!!
Seriously though this is grade-school level, or some really convoluted way to write AI takeover fiction.
I think youāve got bigger problems before you can take over the world, mate.
More relevant though is how absolutely mind-boggling it is that nobody apparently seems to read the actual prompts theyāre giving. I canāt possibly imagine why this prompt would end up treating morality as a kind of unified numerical scale. Maybe itās this part here, where you literally told it to do that
Also once again the lunacy of trying to act like āgoodā is a solved question of that āhuman valuesā are possible to coherently collate like this. The fact that the model didnāt reply to this with ālol, lmaoā is the strongest evidence I can imagine that itās not fit for purpose.
bit of a theme with these people
theyāll make up new tests that measure MQ and retcon zizians as pretty normal and belonging people actually