You Sound Like a Bot
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It's real, real hard to escape regression to the mean in autonomous systems. That gaussian's gonna get ya.
[1] I. Shumailov, Z. Shumaylov, Y. Zhao, Y. Gal, N. Papernot, and R. Anderson, “The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget,” May 2023, [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493
Sometimes it's actual humans who are just dull and exclaim commonly known facts as if they're deep or novel. I know the xkdc 1:20,000 bit but it gets so tiring.
I really don’t understand how people enjoy using twitter. I mean I didn’t before but now I can’t understand how it’s worth anything to anyone.
Same with Reddit back when I was regularly visiting. I don't see the dumping ground of low value memes because I only see the subreddits I want.
Probably the same for facebook? But I wouldn't know.
Like most things, it takes a bit of work to reap rewards.
The problem is, network effects may not make this possible anymore.
anecdotally, my use, and that of all of the people I know on it, is fairly limited. its basically just a way to keep track of family, local groups, etc. I've given up on the platform as a way to get accurate news, but it's still useful for organizational contacts; ditto for FB.
I wouldn't call it that vague, from what I've seen it's one of the most re-shared xkcd comics.
And yet, so many people understood the reference, me included, even ChatGPT got it. I always find it fascinating when a messages manages to pass well even though all of its individual parts are wrong.
Is there something deep about it, maybe? Probably not. Maybe we can turn that into some commonly known fact to tell the lucky ten thousand.
Basically what I was getting at, the other end of "don't make fun of someone for not knowing" is "Don't yell at people for saying commonly known facts because there's always someone who is finding out for the first time".
If it was only so easy, that those who were evil could just be separated from the rest of us, but alas, the line that separates good and evil cuts through the heart of every person
Paraphrasing Solzhenitsyn, of course..
Don't be so quick to apply the quack and nut case label, please.
When I was growing up, calling somebody a "boy" was shorthand for "aimbot", essentially "oh this guy's so unrealistically good that he must be hacking"
Now the same phrase means "you are a rudimentary program meant to fill space and lose in large lobbies"
The fact that they are so different says a lot about backtracking in technological necessities, but also a huge culture shift towards engagement driven game design, lack of reverence for skill, etc.
Literally just set the damn temperature higher and allow for sampling from deeper down in the distribution (so relax top_p, top_k or equiv parameters) and suddenly you get creativity, and also more unhinged behavior.