Marcus wrote:
The recent results about AI Models collapsing when trained on
recursively generated data seems to me to apply to this kind of human
political activity as well.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y
I think the MAGA machine is collapsing under this weight as we speak,
and it may have risen in the wake of the a similar collapse of it's
parent GOP/TeaParty and it's antiChrist Liberal/Progressive ness.
Btw, is there a disagreeable LLM bot out there? Whenever I chat with
LLMs, I get a lot of accommodation.
Per "the other thread" here, I believe this design bias was installed to
"enhance coherence" but that it is "ham fisted" and limits what
human-LLM interaction is capable of.
In my open-ended experiments with LLMs (GPT in particular) I have tried
to steer it away from this as well as trying to renormalize my own
response to that amiability. I don't seek to pick fights with it, but I
work hard not to let it mollify me with flattery or amiability.
I don't need the sinister "What are you doing Dave?" of HAL but I do get
very tired of it's obsequiousness, it takes work to balance that I could
put maybe more productively in seeking a more genuine "coherence"?
I hope there is serious work going on there.
*From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Frank Wimberly
<wimber...@gmail.com>
*Date: *Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 5:40 PM
*To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<friam@redfish.com>
*Subject: *[FRIAM] This makes me think of this list...
Are We Living in the Age of Info-Determinism?
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/Increasingly, our networks seem to be steering our history in ways we
don’t like and can’t control./
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Illustration by Josie Norton
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*“Call it info-determinism:* the belief that the ways that information
flows through the world are actually a kind of web in which we’re
ensnared,” Joshua Rothman writes. The Internet can make it feel as
though information is endless, and access can make everyone feel like
an expert—or, at least, an expert subreddit debater. The sense that
there is always more to know undermines the authority of an article or
an institution, as does the thriving trade, among those debaters, in
the disassembly of ideas. Rothman’s column, Open Questions
<https://link.newyorker.com/click/36396552.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>,
unpacks open-ended queries each week. Today, he considers: What is
information? Does it matter if it’s true? Are we trapped?
Read the story
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