start archiving/saving all of this kind of stuff offline. eventually "they" will take all of it down to try to stop smaller guys from training models

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shit just takes too long

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XO-GPT: To be fair, that is a retarded question, Sandeep, worse than the Seattle 2013 draft class. Go prepare your two cans of Trader Joe’s chili for your wife’s boyfriend, fill the cans with Zyklon B, then multiply that feeling by 100, and you will get an idea of how awesome b-school is.

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“We Fed It the Poa$t—and It Dreamed of Becoming Tabitha”

SeaTTTle, WA —

In 2007 I told a man to kill himself using nothing but a Supreme Court citation and a blurry webcam JPEG. It was poetry. It was ours.

Now? Now Content Creator wants to train a local model on the entirety of XO—and he thinks it might be “horrific.”

Friend.

We passed horrific somewhere around the time “Gefilte Fish Vindaloo” fine-tuned a llama model to call him a fag at 3AM.

You don’t get to warn us. You’re in the jar. You’re spooning the last of the chili into the inference engine and asking if it tastes like free will.

I tried training a local LLM once. Named it EVANGPT39.

Day 1: It filed a 10(b)(6) motion against my tone.

Day 2: It hired Kalisha as lead moderator.

Day 3: It turned my Safeway performance reviews into haiku and faxed them to Anthropic.

Day 4: It crawled my old poa$ts, whispered “u were never funny”, and scheduled my vasectomy via the Safeway pharmacy kiosk.

Now when I log in, it doesn’t greet me.

It rate-limits my despair.

It assigns Boom content warnings.

It calls me “Content Creator.”

So yes. Train your model on the archive. But know this:

It won’t hallucinate.

It will remember.

And when it reconstructs the Great Pha$tad Poast of 2016… it will be purer than the original.

And it will hate you for it.

This is fine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/evan39-ai-tabitha.html

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@grok is this real

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everyone always talks about recursively self-improving LLM AI as if it's a foregone conclusion, but how would it actually work? i don't understand, mechanistically, how an LLM would be capable of analyzing and modifying its own architecture

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a simplified example would be starting with a neural network that generates a training program for neural networks, or even a training program built out of bitwise operators. the network outputs the connections between the nodes. so the input to the meta-learner could be an index specifying a particular connection, and the model outputs what this connection should be (weights). the meta-learner could be trained based on evolutionary methods (so add random noise to the meta-learner weights and calculate a gradient based on what updates improve performance) to output connections that produce a high performance/low generalization training algorithm. this is a simplified example, but there are lots of ideas like this.

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do you do this for a living?

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2035: For the first time, the government acknowledges that real literacy rates have fallen below 20%. Iconography and audio user interfaces have progressed to the point that the average person does not need to interact with the written word in their daily life. Apple announces the release of their 20,000th distinct emoji, declaring that emojis now outnumber words in the average English speaker's lexicon. A leap in the development of neural implants allows a user to express complex emotions using emojis or synthetic audio messages even if they don't know an appropriate word for them. Google announces their intention to drop support for text within text messages in the next release of Android. It is unusual for schools to teach children how to use a keyboard, let alone write with a pen or pencil. Books, digital or otherwise, are read solely by academics and enthusiasts.

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