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here's a take i don't think i heard yet: the better LLMs ...

2026-09-27T07:43:41Z

here's a take i don't think i heard yet:
the better LLMs are, the *more* they're dangerous. not because they can "go rogue", nothing like that. rather the better LLMs are, the likelier people are to trust them.

you'll never use an LLM that's wrong half of the time as a search engine, but one that's only wrong 10% of the time might be good enough.
you'll never use an LLM that's wrong 10% of the time to automate your job, but one that's only wrong 1% of the time might be good enough.
you'll never hook an LLM that's wrong 1% of the time to a nuclear weapon. but one that's only wrong 1‰ of the time might be good enough.
stochastic parrots don't get less dangerous the more their output aligns with reality. the opposite is true: since the biggest danger a stochastic parrot poses is a human trusting one to make decisions, a dangerous LLM's the one that's more convincing and less likely to be caught during testing.
in classical AI safety research there's a lot of talk about a smart AI Volkswagening during testing to make itself seem safe, with all sorts of calculations for the odds such an AI will show its true form in any given attempt and yada yada. but what that classic research didn't seem to take into account is that an "artificial intelligence" doesn't need to actually be intelligent to replicate the same behaviour. a machine that sometimes appears safe and intelligent and sometimes doesn't can mislead you just as well, without having an evil plan or even the capability to come up with one. and just like a machine that's evil needs to appear good just often enough to convince you it isn't, a machine that lacks intelligence needs to be right just often enough to convince you it doesn't.

#LLM #LLMs #AI #genAI #FuckAI #AIWWIII #OpenAI #Anthropic #AISafety #StochasticParrot

and now i'm gonna do something you absolutely aren't ...

2026-01-28T13:35:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…nwqt
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and now i'm gonna do something you absolutely aren't allowed to do in the context of the Holocaust unless you're Jewish (and i really mean it) and talk about Israel.
people use Israel as a way to not think about the Holocaust. and that's especially true for the people who are sure they're not the ones doing that.

for some people, using Israel to not think about the Holocaust means supporting Israel as a stand in for supporting Jews. "why, we are not antisemitic, we support Israel! we support a specific group of Jews unconditionally, that must mean we don't actually hate Jews deep inside. and of course, our desire that Jews leave our country and move to Israel has nothing to do with the fact that'll mean less Jews around us.
no, we are definitely not the same as the Germans of the 1930s. absolutely not, here's the proof!"

for other people, using Israel to not think about the Holocaust means finding the single evil to solve to prove they are good. "why, Israel is doing evil, and by being against that it means i can't be doing evil! we oppose a genocide now, that's pretty much the same as stopping the genocide then. there is not a smidge of racism in our body.
no, we are definitely not the same as the Germans of the 1930s. absolutely not, here's the proof!"

and that sort of metal gymnastics is effective. those people don't need to think about the Holocaust anymore, they solved it. they atoned for the crimes of their forefathers, they proved it can't happen again. they do it so they can keep the belief that the Holocaust is a done deal, it's over, it's passé.

you can't solve the Holocaust. nothing you do can solve the Holocaust. because you can't take back a genocide.

i wanna make something very clear. we absolutely do not "talk ...

2026-01-28T13:20:51Z

i wanna make something very clear.
we absolutely do not "talk too much abojt Jews in the Holocaust". in fact, we don't talk about them enough, because we don't talk enough about the Holocaust.
many white people, especially though not exclusively in formerly Nazi countries, *really* don't like to think about the Holocaust. they want to see it as a done thing, something of the past. "yeah, it was bad that it happened, we shouldn't do it again."
but the thing about genocide is it's not a thing that happens, then ends. there's a reason we separate genocide from other crimes, and that is that genocide is not just murder. victims are not just killed, they are erased. their memories gone, their part of culture not coming back, their language fractured so thoroughly it can irrevocably change and lose its identity within far less than a decade.
the Holocaust didn't "happen". it's still here. it's echoes ringing like that of a large bell, inseparable from the sound of the original strike.

and i wanna make something else very clear. the reason non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust aren't talked about is *because* we don't talk enough about the Holocaust. because people want to reduce this historical moment of people coming together in hate to erase other people in their entirety to just the phrase "six million Jews". the persecution of queer people and Roma and Jehovah's witnesses and Slavs and disabled people wasn't a separate thing, in fact many of the victims from those very groups *were also Jewish* (a fact that modern Nazis know when they deface their momorials with anti-Jewish slogans).

the Holocaust makes people uncomfortable, which is why they try to solve and reframe it.
sit in that discomfort. think about what it means.

happy final night of Hanukkah!!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩 ...

2025-12-21T15:00:47Z

happy final night of Hanukkah!!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩
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happy sixth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩 ...

2025-12-19T15:00:43Z

happy sixth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩
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happy fifth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩 ...

2025-12-18T15:00:18Z

happy fifth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩
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happy fourth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩 ...

2025-12-17T15:00:14Z

happy fourth night of Hanukkah!! 🕎 :dreidel: 🍩
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@nprofile…e4ry not to take away from anything you've said, ...

2025-12-08T15:38:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ksnv
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nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kytcqyqf5xxxzllg5cdlszyc7w3zzgjcqhsynp6l2vrdatz98geayvwda5x4e4ry (nprofile…e4ry) not to take away from anything you've said, it's definitely true that this sort of approach leads to dismissing novel ideas. but i think there's also another level at which this kind of approach is worrying: by saying they need to sometimes dismiss the machine's output, one admits the machine is not to be trusted, yet they trust it when they can't catch it in what's (seemingly) an obvious lie.
in other words, it's trusting the liar's word unless you already know it to be false. it's trusting the allegorical wolf to take care of the sheep because if you ever see it attacking one you'd stop it.

if you know you can't trust the machine sometimes, then you can't trust the machine. and if your system is then "well i'll just catch the mistakes", then either you only intend to use it in cases where you already know the right answer (in which case, why use it), or you believe you'll somehow figure out something's wrong when you can't tell what "correct" looks like.

it's saying "if it looks correct then it's correct". which is wrong both on the false negatives end and the false positive ends at the same time.

i've been disappointed enough times to not believe in a ...

2025-10-09T11:57:10Z

i've been disappointed enough times to not believe in a ceasefire in Gaza until i see one.
doesn't matter if there's a signed agreement. i won't believe it until i see one.
even once the ceasefire starts, i won't believe that it continues until i see it.
and if the first hostage gets released i still won't believe the rest are gonna get released until they do
and if the IDF goes one km back i won't believe they'll go the second.
and if food starts flowing in i won't believe that's gonna last.
and until proven wrong i'm gonna assume Israel will start bombing again the second the last hostage is back. or even before that.
i'm not gonna believe in a ceasefire until i see one, and definitely not in a long term peace until that happens.

you're allowed to get optimistic. i'm not saying optimism is the wrong reaction in this moment. maybe it is, idk.
it's just that i've been hurt enough times that i can't be optimistic anymore.

@nprofile…twud @nprofile…59st writefreely is a pretty good ...

2025-04-22T22:15:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…yush
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Shura System :autismcreature: :neobot_flag_genderfluid: (nprofile…twud) Marenzers (nprofile…59st) writefreely is a pretty good minimalist blogging platform with ActivityPub federation. i enjoy it.

listen y'all, we need to realise masking isn't the ...

2025-03-10T20:45:05Z

listen y'all, we need to realise masking isn't the solution to everything.
i'm 100% in favour of masks, and i still mask, and yet i caught COVID twice. the second time it was (i'm almost certain, the dates line up) when i was at the hospital getting my broken nose fixed, meaning i literally couldn't wear a mask.
like even when i first went to the hospital right after breaking my nose i wore a mask with moderate pain. but during the followup when the doctor tells you "hey put that stuff up your nose and wait here a quick 15" you literally can't mask. and so i got COVID.
because you can't just tell people to mask up. like it's a good idea, but it won't solve the problem. this is *a systemic issue* and it needs to be solved in a *systemic way*.
so yeah, mask up, and try to (kindly!) ask other people to mask up too. but don't treat that as a silver bullet. we need and should ask for an actual solution.

so i'm at a concert of John Williams tunes, and the hall is ...

2024-12-07T20:13:09Z

so i'm at a concert of John Williams tunes, and the hall is large enough to justify a camera to zoom in at the players and a screen to display it. but the problem is in between shots of the orchestra are #AI-generated videos.
so from the very beginning, i was annoyed. not only did this not contribute, but it distracted me from the music. i spent most of the concert thereafter either closing my eyes to avoid getting distracted, or failing to do so and only half paying attention to the music.

but that's not the worst part.
no, the worst part is John Williams's catalogue also includes the soundtrack to Spielberg's Schindler's List.
so i, a Jew, had to sit through AI images of the Holocaust.
i legitimately almost got up and left.

imagine being so full of your prompt master geniusness that you ask the AI to depict you scenes OF THE HOLOCAUST.
imagine being an executive that cares so little about the quality of the product that you approve AI generated videos OF THE HOLOCAUST.

right before introducing the soloist of the tune, the conductor mentioned how when approached to make Schindler's List, both Spielberg and Williams thought they're not good enough for such a serious job.
but i'll tell you who did think they're good enough - the person who asked the AI to create background videos OF THE HOLOCAUST

#GenAI is just making all the bad behaviours of humans worse.