Jerkface (any/all)

  • 0 Posts
  • 387 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 6th, 2023

help-circle





  • Voltage is like air or water pressure, and there is an ambient pressure in a system (like the atmospheric pressure) that we arbitrarily call zero. Negative (*) voltage would mean that there is enough voltage/pressure to force electrons to be emitted to ground (ie the ambient pressure) and positive (*) voltage would mean that electrons can be accepted by ground.

    *) Negative and positive are a bit confusing because we originally assumed the force carrying particle was positive, but the electron turned out to be negative; there were some historical quirks as a consequence and some things are backwards from what you would anticipate, and sometimes I get them wrong.



  • Typically you can add some of your own alignment that is inserted before your prompt. On ChatGPT, they call it “memories”. I have found most agents are able to adopt a non-conversational mode when instructed, but sometimes you end up fighting with the platform alignment.

    It’s not just creepy, I think it’s harmful, manipulative, and calculated. As social animals, we are extremely vulnerable to forming unconscious assumptions that we consciously know are bananas, particularity when our social machinery is engaged. For example, it’s well known that even the developers of video games fall the illusion of moral agency and personhood of the characters in their own games. We are primed to be fooled and accept software agents as people, and I believe AI companies are actively and intentionally trying to exploit this psychological weakness.