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by 1f60c 1201 days ago
I'm just going to keep saying YOO-luh-tuhr, thank you very much.
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Reminds me of Yog-Sothoth, which would be a great name for an anthropomorphized statistical model...

> Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

You laugh. But, that has been the meme about GPT for a bit now

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1625850766039842824?c...

RLHF = Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

A meme that quickly became a long-form article: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/janus-simulators.
Reminds me of how there was a post on LessWrong some good decade ago, with a chilling premise: we somehow manage to get a safe, trustworthy, correct AI working, and as we fire it up and ask to tell us about our world, it starts talking about things we somehow can't perceive...