Readit Newsjari_mustonen commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
I mean I would hardly blame the specific model, Anthropic has a specific mention in their system prompts on trump winning. For some reason llms get confused with this one.
It's the political bias in the training material. No surprise there.
jari_mustonen commented on Show HN: MCP server that lets Claude Code consult other LLMs github.com/raine/consult-... · Posted by u/rane
This is really useful for Claude Code. The second opinion is often really insightful. Also, in a lot of cases, when CC can't fix a bug, Gemini can.
A bit unrelated to the topic at hand: how do you make resume based selection completely unbiased?
You can clearly cut off the name, gender, marital status.
You can eliminate their age, but older candidates will possibly have more work experience listed and how do you eliminate that without being biased in other ways?
You should eliminate any free form description of their job responsabilities because the way they phrase it can trigger biases.
You also need to cut off the work place names. Maybe they worked at a controversial place because it was the only job available in their area.
So what are you left with? Last 3 jobs, and only the keywords for them?
I think the problem is that removing factors like name, gender, or marital status does not truly make the process unbiased. These factors are only sources of bias if there is no correlation between, for example, marital status and the ability to work or some secondary characteristic that is preferable to employer such as loyalty. It can be easily hypothesized that marital status might stabilize a person or make them more likely to stay with one employer, or other traits that are preferable.
Similar examples can also be made for name and gender.
The gender bias is not primarily about LLMs but rather a reflection of the training material, which mirrors our culture. This is evident as the bias remains fairly consistent across different models.
The bias toward the first presented candidate is interesting. The effect size for this bias is larger, and while it is generally consistent across models, there is an exception: Gemini 2.0.
If things in the beginning of the prompt are considered "better", does this affect chat like interface where LLM would "weight" first messages to be more important? For example, I have some experience with Aider, where LLM seems to prefer the first version of a file that it has seen.
Of course, AI will be used, first and foremost, to push advertising messages.
Is it just me, or do others also wish they could use public transportation, go for a walk in a park, or watch an educational video without being constantly bombarded with ads at every turn?
If there’s a jurisdiction that has an environmental protection tax on display advertising, whether in the real world or online, let me know. I’ll be the first to move there.
jari_mustonen commented on Our narrative prison aeon.co/essays/why-does-e... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
The article mentions Jung's "collective unconscious," which is often misunderstood.
What he meant by it is that some unconscious features are collective, meaning they are genetically programmed in all people. Jung believed this also includes certain thought patterns, which can be inferred from stories. For example, he would have argued that a paragon of wisdom is typically an older man with a white beard (Gandalf and Dumbledore come to mind) because we have a genetically programmed inclination to see older men with white beards as paragons of wisdom.
Jung liked to use these kinds of methods to analyze the human psyche and its structures. Interesting guy. If anyone is interested, I recommend his collection of essays, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, as a first read.
jari_mustonen commented on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Free speech has been in retreat for years. The previous administration just targeted a different flavor of 'offending speech' and cracked down hard on it.
As a European, I can confirm it’s at least as bad here, if not worse. We’re just gagged by a different set of taboo ideas.
I bought into Trump’s campaign promise to 'restore free speech' — partly because he’d been censored so aggressively himself. I figured he’d get its value. But I didn’t see the Israel exception coming: apparently, Israel and its actions are untouchable, no matter the cost.
This has been common sense for a long time.
It's funny that people only raise this issue because of Donald Trump, whom the article refers to as "King," no less. The previous administration's green-lighting of the largest-ever industrial sabotage against Europe did not raise an eyebrow, but NBC News, a political opponent of Trump, claiming that Trump is "branding himself as a monarch" does the trick.
Oh well, whatever it takes.
useful but also annoying, I don't like the childish style of writing full of filler words etc.
It uses them as tokens to direct the chain of thought, and it is pretty interesting that it uses just those works specifically. Remember that this behavior was not hard-coded to the system.