Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so 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.)
The new Claude model will silently decide whether what you asked it to do is in line with anthropic ToS and silently corrupt your prompt if it doesnāt like what youāre asking. Itās couched as a āsafety countermeasureā but it is presumably to stop Chinese labs trying to scrape synthetic data.
Weāve moved from āaccidentalā hallucinations to deliberate misinformation and youāre paying $$$ for the privelige.
considering how many habitual llm users canāt tell good from bad output anyway, they always could have done that
Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust
I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but itās still rather depressing.
āYouāre holding it wrongā as official policy