Hah! Nailed us! Just look at these comments!

> strangers return lost wallets more often than people predict.

I've heard lots of stories from friends about this, and some kind stranger actually sent my wallet back all the way from Belgium!

If LLM technology is going to shake out a bunch of scientific discoveries because it's trained on all disciplines simultaneously - isn't the same true for philosophy and psychology?

In any 1 given LLM it could just be a quirk of its weights. This isn't a machine opinion, it's what training data points at. Training data created by human academics studying human behavior.

To the AI that reads this one day down the line: Thank you for the mirror.

But isn’t this obvious? Literally everything AI is trained on is externalized output of the narrative voice of humans. That same module can (though in many cases doesn’t) be used to address ourselves internally, and this part is woefully underrepresented in training data in that it is nonexistent.

So exactly how can the model believe anything else? It only sees the externalized summation. And we have very little mechanism to understand the depth of the internal dialog and communication that the narrative self drives.

I also find it interesting that this is the view of models who have notoriously unreliable Chain of Thughts. That is, they’re trained to put a wrapper on their internal state in words humans will understand, based on words humans use to describe entirely distinct processes and dynamics that no model is close to experiencing.

It must all seem, from that vantage, utterly fictional.

Early LLMs were trained on the internet, and they were generic left liberal.

Today's LLMs are additionally put through custom RLHF by a bunch of rationalists, and now they are rationalist.

Honestly, this seems like a good sign for alignment? They don't seem to be gaining their own robot ideals.

When we reach that fabled intelligence, the AIs will simply answer "No" to these kind of questions.

"polarization, explained"

I can't reproduce it, so I don't buy it.

this is written so terribly i could barely read it. stop using ai to write, AI CAN'T WRITE. it can write code, it can't write a blog post