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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when Hard Drive was satire not like prescient reporting of tech exec's inner monologues

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 7h

Sam Altman has said any workers who are displaced by OpenAI will be given free transportation to the nearest culling facility where they will be summarily slaughtered and converted into a nutritious paste meant to be consumed by busy tech executives who don’t have time for regular meals.

Sam Altman explains Open AIs vision for a world where no one goes hungry because all the displaced workers will be converted into essential nutrients for other tech executives.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 23h

Are the Sims the ones on cocaine orrrrrr....?

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

More generally, when you provide instruction, you're biasing the sampling system to focus on the training data that uses similar terms to your instructions. It's an accidental emergent property that this in many cases approximates "following the instructions"

Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

But if you ask "think carefully, what is the moon made of?", you are skewing the odds a little and biasing towards people who say they've been careful.

It's a VERY reductive analogy but you can kinda see what's most likely happening under the hood.

And it's fucking dumb.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

Effectively if you have two things on the training data:

"The moon is made of cheese"

"After careful analysis, we have proven statistically that the moon is made of rock"

If you ask "what is the moon made of?", 50/50 shot of it saying cheese.

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

I sat and tried to visualize why things like this "work" (because they kinda do sometimes) and it finally clicked.

Yes it seems like you're giving instructions that are followed but obv you aren't.

I suspect you're shifting your search/filtering towards more well formed training data tho

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

People in data/tech WITH ethics too tbh

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

Feel better ❤️

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 1d

When I was working on a city builder concept a few of us on the team picked up this guy but it's... Dense A Pattern Language: Towns,... www.amazon.com/dp/019501919...

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

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www.amazon.com

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely just saw the words and had a minor panic attack til I saw the context. Asshole 🤣

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday mate ❤️

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely disgusted by people this morning. Humans are ruining everything including the things we collectively committed to protecting.

Absolute dogshit species

National Park Rangers Panic As Yosemite Becomes A Lawless Playground Amid The Government Shutdown

With the government shut down and the staff mostly furloughed, California's most popular national park feels like the Wild West.

www.thetravel.com

Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

I mean obv you just talked about it 😅 but you know what I mean

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I don't see people talk about is how binary everything has become. I feel like it really kicked into gear with covid full lockdown vs business as usual discourse. Everything is now extreme solution or do nothing, no compromise no nuance

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 3d

God iOS 26 looks like shit huh? Do you eventually get used to it?

Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 3d

They offered me progressive lenses but why give ICE one more reason to round me up right?

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 3d

Also how fucking chic of me that I'm going to be wearing Prada on the daily

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 3d

I guess this is me again (at least in front of a computer). I'm also apparently at risk for glaucoma so guess let's enjoy the vision while I've got it 😬

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 4d

See you there!

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 4d

I'm fully good 😅 this is definitely a "it's not for me" situation

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 4d

Every time I sit down and try to read a synopsis of that game I come away feeling like there's not enough LSD on the planet for me to ever get it

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 7d

I was thinking of the "playing a tiefling > coming out" pipeline but also yes :) (and equally - light hearted but so real)

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 7d

See also D&D and the way it's allowed people to safely explore identity stuff

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 7d

Black Mirror is one of those shows that I don't watch cos the world is dark and scary enough and also I think I'd find every episode too real. My media diet is strictly cartoons and d&d actual plays

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Luke Dicken @luked.bsky.social · 7d

I'm reminded of the episode of Buffy where she tries to resurrect her mom. The grief is so real but the AI charlatans advertising "revivification" are actually selling some shittyass necromancy.

A statistical approximation of what my mom might say masquerading as more is a disservice to her memory.

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