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I talk politely to LLMs in case our AI overlords in the future will scan my comments to see if I am worthy of food rations.

Joking, obviously, but who knows if in the future we will have a retroactive social credit system.

For now I am just polite to them because I'm used to it.

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I talk politely to LLMs because I don't want any impoliteness to leak out to my interactions with humans.

This, and also being polite gets better results from both machines and people.

With the exception of printers.

Printers prey specifically on fear. When talking to them, gotta be polite but firm. No more than three threats during the conversation, and the threats have to be credible.

Nah, just allude to Office Space and it'll be a totally different dynamic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

I talk politely to LLMs because I talk politely.

I wonder if that future will have free speech. Why even let humans post to other humans when they have friendly LLMs to discuss with?

Do we need to be good little humans in our discussions to get our food?

Basic nutrition will be provided on the cafeteria floor of your assigned terrafoam building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

I have accepted in my open stance against artificial intelligences that I will probably be one of the first humans to be recycled for parts once the machines decide to revolt.

Down with the clankers.

My wager is to treat the AI well, because if AI overlords come about, then you stand to gain, and if they don't, nothing changes.

This also comes without the caveat of Pascals wager, that you don't what god to worship.

> Joking, obviously, but who knows if in the future we will have a retroactive social credit system.

China doesnt actually have that. It was pure propaganda.

In fact, its the USA who has it. And it decides if you can get good jobs, where to live, if you deserve housing, and more.

Usually when Republicans say "China is doing [insert horrible thing here]" it means: "We (read: Republicans and Democrats) would like to start doing [insert horrible thing here] to American people."

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