I HATE HEINLEIN

I HATE HEINLEIN

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Wtf is Grok

      It’s a super cool secret word used in “Stranger In A Strange Land” by the power fantasy ego insert Main Character of Main Characters to describe a special magical kind of understanding that transcends mere understanding in an emotional and sexual (sexually pathological, because Heinlein) way.

      How is ChatGPT “woke”?

      It doesn’t tell you directly how to cook epic meme drugs like based Walter White and it doesn’t print N-words on command.

      Doesn’t ‘Piss Shuttle Elon’ own ChatGPT?

      He may have stakes in it but he wants something that is edgier and repeats his tiresome divorce dad shit.

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        It doesn’t tell you directly how to cook epic meme drugs like based Walter White and it doesn’t print N-words on command.

        Elon posted a grok example that was like “How do I make cocaine?”

        And the bot went on a long thing like “Go to university get a chemistry degree, make cocaine, hope you dont get blown up. JK just kidding I dont want you to get in trouble with the DEA so I wont tell you ;)”

        Treated it like the funniest thing he’d ever seen.

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          He genuinely did think that was funny. His sense of humor is Facebook memes that are only barely above angry minion tier.

          I also wouldn’t be surprised if that image was fake and he’d written it himself.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            A lot of gen-xers, especially affluent ones, are just junior boomers.

            my-hero is like the prince of boomer brain, from the naive technology fetishization to the rage against “wokeness.”

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          Treated it like the funniest thing he’d ever seen.

          There are people that are so narcissistic that their idea of the funniest thing out there is something that they have already internally decided agrees with their attitude and worldview. It’s a sort of internal clapter detector and any laughter about it is performative; they only seek validation and repetition.

          They’re disturbing to be around.

      • TheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        I would put it slightly diffrent. The power insert main character is a writer that has three hot female assistants, but also is a doctor and a lawyer. Grok comes from the Martians who are so right about everything that when they say things reality changes. So specifically not his self insert but from the power of drugs and space sex.

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        I’m once more reminded of how I only read one or two Heinlein pieces and went, “yep, that checks the box. Off to read another famous person.”

    • drhead [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      In the context of AI, people tend to use “grok” to describe what can sometimes happen if you overtrain the living shit out of a model and it somehow goes from being trained appropriately and generalizing well -> overfitted and only working well on the training data, with shit performance everywhere else -> somehow working again and generalizing, even better than before. Example in a paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02177

      OpenAI really wants a monopoly and are trying to present themselves as a “safe” AI company while also lobbying for regulation of “unsafe” AI companies (everyone else, and especially open-source development). So pretty much half of all manhours spent on developing models at OpenAI seem to be directed towards stopping it from generating anything that will get them the wrong kind of press. Sometimes, they are moderately successful at doing this, but someone always eventually finds a way to get something on the level of “gender reveal 9/11” out of their models.

      Elon owned OpenAI at some point but sold it because, as we all know, he makes a lot of extremely poor financial decisions.

      • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        trained appropriately and generalizing well -> overfitted and only working well on the training data, with shit performance everywhere else -> somehow working again and generalizing, even better than before

        That’s fascinating, I’ve never heard of that before.