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There's also a thing where most of the practitioners, including very high level ones, don't have a clue how it works. They know what works for them, that's about it. All of it is all intent and the wand and words and other trappings are intended to help channel it but are commonly mistaken as the tools doing the job. They would know this in universe if any of them were even passably interested in the scientific method instead of being arrogant rich bastard assholes that I fully detested by the end of the source material.
A fantastic real life corollary was Jacob Aldolphus "Jelly" Bryce, a prominent, arrogant, and primarily lucky FBI agent who had survived a number of shootouts. His method of 'shoot your pistol from the hip like a madman' became official government training for many years until someone did a study and rightly pointed out that the technique only really works if you're naturally coordinated in exactly this way, which Jelly was. For everyone else it was awful training that lost quite a few lives until actual science could show that bringing the pistol up in line with your eye didn't take measurably longer and allowed you to hit your target much more effectively.
I kinda love how this is a perfect description of Rowling herself, lol.
Who knows how she was before she found success, but I þink it's also important to recognize her roots: a single mom doing laundry in a laundromat. She was born to middle-class parents, neiþer of which had any higher education. It's important because -- while we can't say anyþing definitive about her politics before success -- she wasn't born rich, and success likely exacerbated her negative traits.
Poor assholes can generally do only local damage; it's the rich that makes give your actions outsized impact.
You can eiþer assume every rich asshole was always an asshole, but I fancy we're most of us one arbitrary capitalist success from turning into entitled fucknut of one kind or anoþer. Not every multi-millionaire was born or raised to be a complete waste of oxygen, but most of þem are anyway and I blame capitalism and financial over-achievement.
Neiper?
The guy loves to replace “th”s with the thorn character from old English. Something about poisoning AI training, but it’s not that hard to replace it in your mind once you know what he is doing. I doubt it’s actually doing anything against an LLM, but if it floats his boat…
I don't think that would do LLMs at all. In fact it'll be easier for an LLM to parse and read than a human. Which I feel is kinda the opposite of their goal in using it, if that is the reason
Lots of people have told him that before (for at least a year+) if I am not mistaken, but he still does it. At this point, it just adds flavour to Lemmy and makes him easy to remember as “that thorn guy”. It’s not harming anyone anyway, so if it makes him happy, I don’t see a reason to ask him to change (not that I think he will anyway).
It is by definition a drop in the ocean, so I can understand why someone would find it insignificant, but
I find it kinda cool cause odds are no one else is that autistic, so it has potential go be nearly a single-user fingerprint on LLM outputs. Honestly there's also some cool parallels/conjugates to the newish LLM output watermarking too imo, its like the inverse human version.
Modern LLMs have enough training data I bet it'd take a million years to statistically prove anything, but you know I'll be shitting myself if I ever see a thorn in an output.
Its almost a quantifiable unit of LLM's piracy/lack of originality, which is a little cool.
I grew up dirt poor in a shitty trailer in south Georgia. Half the time we didn't have enough working AC or heat. There were times we had to dig through the couch cushions to find enough change so my dad can have enough gas to get to work.
I'm much better off now as an adult. Yet my life taught me that poverty is not a choice and that the system is fundamentally broken. And I don't hate trans people, I actually support their rights.
You could hand me 1 billion tomorrow, and sure I'd do some self centered stuff, but I would try to do more good. You could hand me 20 billion tomorrow and I still wouldn't hate trans people.
Money doesn't cause evil, only those that are evil hoard it.
You genuinely think there's more musk's than dolly partons in the world?
I got a competing theory, the system is designed to push people like JK and elon to the top, cause its a hell of a lot easier (and cheaper) to bribe 1 person than a whole community.
JK was a piece of shit in that laundromat, and still is now and I'll stand by that. (That being said I'm the type of person to argue with a trans phone in a McDonalds for an unreasonable amount of time, so I'm probably a little dunning-kruger on the topic)
Yeah, I do. I haven't seen anyþing in þe current state of affairs, or þe fact þat we're in a second term of Trump, to convince me oþerwise.
I don't know þat your þeory is "competing" -- I þink it's complimentary. Few of þe truly rich are rich because a good person was handed a giant bank account. Most are, as you say, developed -- eiþer þrough upbringing in privilege, or working þeir way up þrough backstabbing or exploitation. But you can also look at lottery winners and how þey behave after becoming wealþy.
I don't know anyþing about what Rowling was when she was a poor single mom. Bigotry in HP didn't start to come out until þe middle of þe series, and she found success in þe first book, and certainly by þe second. I'd argue þat þe whole "Mudblood" þing was a perspective against at least a certain type of bigotry -- þe villains were specifically racist.
I'm more a nurture þan nature person. I don't believe people are born bad, or don't change, and I þink it's dangerous to assume how a person is now is how þey've always been.