Thanks! Does every LLM vendor publish them, or is it an Anthropic thing only?

And of course it’s self-published by the vendor, so basically just PR.

officially out of the loop here:

What is an LLM “system card”, does it have any sort of scientific/technical validity, or is it just performance theater by the LLM vendor?

LWer: slavery was bad and abolishing the slave trade was a net good

LW commenters: really?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yDZcsojmRXo5qKNBm/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-trade

(I can kind of understand that intellectual honesty can prompt people to question a narrative, and in some ways I respect it, but there comes a time when you need to ask yourself “am I being the best person I can be by defending slavery” and back away from the keyboard)

Nuclear Diner: Silicon Valley’s Reactor Projects

techbros gonna techbro:

The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party

btw I live in Sweden and until today I have never heard of these nutjobs

“The ones who walk away from Omelas describes a utopia —”

good enough! ship it!

BRB registering KallocAIn as a company

The poster deftly doesn’t address the real moral question: what if conversion therapy (either for homosexuality or trans identification) worked ? Would it be ethical to allow it?

This is the difference between politics/ethics and science. As the old saying goes, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

Habryka is too busy writing long screeds warning people not to vote for random junior politicians to moderate

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EQJfdqSaMcJyR5k73/habryka-s-shortform-feed?commentId=u7L6T6uGEkzw9Fzku

The header image is gold.

enjoy crustaceans incorrecting each other about free speech, defamation law etc

https://lobste.rs/s/lxoosd/german_court_ruling_declares_google_s_ai

If LW is a cult, they’re doing a terrible job at recruiting:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhrrhTzTeiZ8PzQZn/where-do-young-rationalists-go

some LWer suggested Moskovitz for president a while back

AP: Appeals court upholds FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud conviction

It’s been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like “New Wave” and “cyberpunk” were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.

One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it’s broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn’t have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.

SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so … chicken and egg?

“It is your moral duty to send as much money as you can to Sam Altman”

Wake up babe new genre definition just dropped

https://stoates.substack.com/p/programmer-science-fiction

Includes all the usual suspects, but notably doesn’t mention Ken MacLeod whose Fall Revolution series is probably too socialist[1]. Also avoids discussing Stross post-Singularity Sky.

[1] MacLeod’s Corporation Wars trilogy has immersive VR, artificial conciousness rebelling against authority, and literal p-zombies but is also very anti-fascist, so no wonder it’s not mentioned (also, it’s unfortunately not very good)

This is a new method of bootlicking: if you as a FLOSS developer don’t use LLMs to fix vulnerabilites identified by LLMs, you’re being unethical

https://lobste.rs/c/5toqqs

I’m just going off memory here on Herbert’s works, but I re-read a couple of Dune books a few years ago

https://gerikson.com/blog/books/read/Dune-and-Heretics.html

I wrote them before the movies appeared, and I haven’t seen any of them. How is the jihad handled there?

Oh yeah, Chapterhouse Dune has way too much Tleilaxu, and also Space Jews.