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From the LLM's "point of view" it is going to do what characters in the training data were most likely to do.

I have a lot of issues with the framing of it having a "point of view" at all. It is not consciously doing anything.

baconbrandon Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data

Yes for part of the country. Gerrymandering, long lines, distant polling locations... Voting day isn't a holiday, voting hours aren't 24/7, and not all states have laws requiring time off of work to vote. For a lot of red states, elections simply are not fair.

baconbrandon Bored of It

Ads provide information. An event you might be interested in is happening. A food you might like is available. A thing that will totally improve your life can be yours. etc

baconbrandon Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly

From a surface level it seems like they've operated like this since... forever. AWS is still a very nice product, at least for the use cases I have for it. I have a hard time reconciling those two things.

baconbrandon OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

Innovation is not an inherently good thing.