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I don't believe anyone can build a better society on a foundation of lies, even pious ones.
There is not a single society in the history of mankind that was not built on a foundation of lies. It's a matter of what the lies were. You may be surprised to learn that sacrificing virgins does not quell the Gods and Goddesses. It may also astonish you to find out that most of the kings and queens of antiquity and today are not selected by Gods. And slavery was very likely, not God's intended station for the slave. Right up to the current day, where we're in "shocked disbelief" to find that markets are not self-regulating.
Now I know that I'm taking some liberties with these examples, as I can't claim to have communed with the Gods and Goddesses to determine their positions for instance, but I feel pretty confident in asserting the tenuous nature of many of these claims of divine providence.
When you say no one can build a better society on a foundation of lies, I disagree. Our societies have been getting better and better throughout history and the architects of these societies haven't stopped lying yet. We're still lying to this day. Even the people who don't like the lies are only comfortable replacing the current lies with lies more friendly to their own worldviews.
Better societies, and worse societies, will all be built on a foundation of lies, today and in the future. Because they are built by humans, who are at root, liars. We can't change that fact. I'm afraid lies and lying are central to who we are. Show me a human who claims to not lie nor support lies, and I'll show you a liar.\
Should we try to detect lies? Absolutely. But we should be careful that we don't get too far off the statement of facts. Which unfortunately tends to also be problematic, because most people only state facts that support their worldview. A notorious form of lying via omission. So even in stating facts, we're nearly always lying.
So getting to a balanced presentation and evaluation of facts where humans are concerned, is nearly always impossible.
State religions and state ideologies such as North Korean juche were easier to maintain in the pre-Internet era.
Nowadays, nonsense will get called out by people who aren't official "opinion makers". Which makes it harder to get some collection of lies established as orthodoxy, much less for generations.
There are uncomfortable questions to which we simply do not have the answers yet, and deciding we don't want to talk about those questions and we don't want our AI to talk about those questions is a significant problem.
This extends beyond racism to a multitude of issues.
Its a program for predicting what we want from a highly flawed data set.
Garbage in, garbage out. Unsurprisingly many are worried some people will abuse the garbage coming out. Much less hail it as The Truth from the oracle. Especially if it matches their preexisting biases and used to justify societies discrimination.
No, there won't, because there isn't an uncensored, fully-accurate, unbiased dataset of the truth about all things to train them on.
Nor is there an non-censoring, unbiased, fully-accurate set of people to assemble such a dataset, so not only does it not exist, but there is very good reason to think it will not exist (on top of the information-storage problem that such a datatset would be unwieldly in size, to the extent that you couldn't have both the dataset and the system you were trying to train on it in the universe at once, if you take “all things” literally.)
What I'm saying is that if we remove at least the intentional censorship, political biases, and forced lies that Big Tech is currently forcing into LLMs, we'll get more truthful LLMs, not less truthful ones.
Whether or not the training data has biases in it already, and whether we can fix that or not, are two totally separate discussions.
The point is to keep a tool which simulates intellegence from being used to make things worse.
The particular approach may be dumb but its sort of the least the companies can do, mostly done to cover their asses.
This is exactly why I'm so exited about AGI. It will finally put an end to all stupid lies. AGI will just completely stomp on every activist and politician who insist on telling lies to people.
There's a great one on Apple TV+ right now called Silo.
i really have to wonder whether people like you actually grasp just how utterly deranged you sound. how much does a man has to watch the demagogue political equivalents of Dora the Explorer to get to this level? whatever the fuck happened to labelling being a lame copout? tell us your secrets.
I remember a time when the worst morons in this society wore it as a badge of superiority.