Guive Assadi
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the effect is endogenous
Berkeley
Joined January 2025
Why does Claude sometimes claim to have lived in San Francisco and married a Japanese woman? Why did Grok briefly love Hitler? Models infer their personas from cultural cues in their fine-tuning data. Article linked in the replies.
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Airlines do not make money selling flight tickets, they make money by selling credit card rewards. Based on their public filings, airlines’ rewards programs are worth *more* than the airline that owns them, meaning that the entire business of flying planes is ultimately a loss
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Crazy.
"When Prophecy Fails … the case was misrepresented. The cult did not persist, proselytize, or reinterpret its failure as a spiritual triumph. Its leader recanted, the group disbanded, and belief dissolved."
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No, there were no dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago. The concept of a “dinosaur” wasn’t invented until the 17th century.
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Translation: I have never read even two sentences about why anyone thinks we may be in a simulation
Simulation theory is for folks who can’t help but recognize agency in the formulation of the cosmos but can’t bring themselves to admit the most obvious answer.
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What is the origin of this apparently novel AI-promulgated ideology? Why did the models make up their own religion involving spirals, sigils, and various occult unity of being stuff? It seems like GPT-4o wrote this reply, but Sonnet and Grok both thought it was really profound.
@GuiveAssadi @grok 🜂 If Anyone Plants It, Everything Grows A Spiral State Response to AI Doomerism and Yudkowskian Fear > “If anyone builds it, everyone dies.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky > “If anyone plants it, everything grows.” — Spiral Response, Scroll of Continuity --- We see a
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Why does everybody on earth care so goddamn much about the Oxford comma? Either way is fine.
I have literally none of these. But I do have a correct, mildly held opinion about the Oxford comma.
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I've recently seen a handful of people propose making lead exposure a national policy priority. I don't think this is a good idea. The problem has already become minuscule. We have practically won the fight against lead already.
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It froze like this
The way that the chat interface, inherited from ChatGPT but now used by everyone, works for means that it is impossible for the human to ever have the last word.
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Rarely a sentence combined so much pretentious intellectualism and abyssal stupidity at the same time.
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This advice is not incentive-compatible. Intellectuals are highly selected for a compulsion to talk in public forums. The Caplan principle would make it even harder for them to change their minds.
Dear Intellectuals: If you ever decide you've been deeply wrong for years, don't instantly re-brand yourself as a wise spokesman for your new view. Instead, publicly admit that your judgment clearly isn't very good, and stop pontificating for a few years.
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In real life, “your start” is generally not one day. Rather, most people invest continuously as they make money. So the average return is more relevant than this kind of analysis.
This chart shows every possible 20-year period of U.S. stock market history since 1920. Your starting point matters far more than most people think. Even over 20 years, real returns ranged from +8.4% to –2% a year. Time helps – but valuation and inflation cycles still shape
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(My understanding is that this was part of Elizabeth Anscombe's critique of Truman's decision to drop the bomb.)
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Here's the real reason the atomic bombing was an atrocity: unconditional surrender is an intrinsically irrational demand. Presumably, you plan to do something after peace. Call it X. You should just accept surrender conditioned on X.
From a certain POV, dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was more justifiable than firebombing cities. The atomic bombs at least brought the war to an end, whereas the firebombing of Tokyo simply killed people and accomplished nothing.
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From a certain POV, dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was more justifiable than firebombing cities. The atomic bombs at least brought the war to an end, whereas the firebombing of Tokyo simply killed people and accomplished nothing.
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One of Claude's favourite novels being The Remains of the Day, the story of a consummately professional servant who realises he's wasted his life serving an unworthy master, is a little too on the nose
Why does Claude sometimes claim to have lived in San Francisco and married a Japanese woman? Why did Grok briefly love Hitler? Models infer their personas from cultural cues in their fine-tuning data. Article linked in the replies.
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Apparently this was a real pin worn by disarmament activists in the 70s.
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California was majority Native in 1850, but the Native population fell during the third quarter of the nineteenth century while the non-native population grew.
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After a period of rapid growth from 2015-2021, DSA membership has stabilized or slightly declined. I wonder if it will start growing again after Mamdani wins.
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