Readit NewsWhat was curious about this was that, at the time, there were few dangerous books in libraries. Catcher in the Rye and 1984 was about it. You wouldn't find a large print copy of Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, for instance.
I disagree about how libraries minimise the risk of anyone knowing who is reading what. On the web where so much is tracked by low intelligence marketing people, there is more data than anything that anyone can deal with. In effect, nobody is able to follow you that easily, only machines, with data that humans can't make sense of.
Meanwhile, libraries have had really good IT systems for decades, with everything tracked in a meaningful form with easy lookups. These systems are state owned, therefore it is no problem for a three letter agency to get the information they want from a library.
LLMs are an advanced automata which lack self-regulation and self-reflection, similarly to NPCs. NPCs cannot exist outside of rules set out for them, and neither can LLMs.
I’ll add that semen is in fact a better candidate for moral and ethical consideration given that it can produce conscious beings. As soon as NPCs and LLMs do that, please give them moral status.
What does it do to users to have a thing that simulates conversations and human interaction and teach them to have complete moral disregard for something that is standing in for an intelligent being? What is the valid use case for someone to need an AI model kept in a state where it is producing tokens indicating suffering or distress?
Even if you're absolutely certain that the model itself is just a bag of matrices and can no way suffer (which is of course plausible although I don't see how anybody can really know this), it also seems like the best way to get models which are kind & empathetic is to try to be that as far as possible.
I don't know why but your comment made me remember a novel[1] I read thirty-some years ago about a temple found deep in the sand of the Sahara desert. Sometime later, an archeologist gave himself permission to defecate in a corner of the temple, only for his wastes to be absorbed by the temple in a few hours, which told him the temple was actually a living biological structure.
1: https://www.daliaf.com/oeuvres/etrange-monument-du-desert-ly...
sheet music isn't a language, it's a notation. it's just a concise way to represent a waveform (a song). and it's certainly one dimensional because you either play the song forwards or backwards.
of course not a language in the same way English or Spanish are languages, but certainly a language in the same way mathematical formula, Lisp, or Java are languages.
>certainly one dimensional
The X axis represent time and the Y axis represent pitch. Moreover, you can have multiple pitches at the same time. I'm not a musician nor a geometrician but it does seems 2D to me, in a way regular text is not.
* Lot of rickrolling. but replace Rick Astley by Goatse, Tubgirl, or LemonParty.
* Frist post
* BSD is dying
* GNAA
* Nathalie Portman
* Robotic Overlord
* In Soviet Russia
* Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these memes
* etc.
Then it becames fixated on SCO and basically became Darl McBride News, for years...
However, what was interresting was their qualified upvote system. You did not simply upvote or downvote, but needed to add a qualifier to it: +1 Informative, +1 Insightful, +1 Interesting, +1 Funny, -1 Troll, -1 Offtopic, -1 Flamebeat. I never seen such a system elsewhere.
What if the enormous cultural and economic problems caused by (among other things) the incredibly top-heavy population pyramid prevent that from happening?