knightly the Sneptaur

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I really hope people are starting to catch on, large language models aren’t “intelligent”, they’re multidimensional maps of human language use and querying them is just tracing a vector “forward” through language-space from the starting point of a prompt.

    It’s the reification fallacy writ so large it’s eclipsing entire national economies. Human intelligence isn’t in language, language is a product of human intelligence. The map is not the territory.

    And yeah, it is pretty cool that we have the processing power to map out language-space well enough to draw some vectors that remain coherent over thousands of tokens, but using a billion-parameter model to do what could be accomplished with probably-already-existing management software and a few seconds of CPU time per week is as wasteful as it is misguided.













  • Well, you’ve got my first three. Then there’s:

    “Be gay, do crimes.”

    Referencing “my partners” whenever appropriate (or at least as often as straight people talk about their families) and then having to explain polyamory to confused old people.

    “Buy local, use cash.”

    “The trick to a fancy curled moustache is not to twist it. The moustache-twirling villain is a myth, you’ve gotta spike it out straight and then bend the curve in.”