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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • it’s all about feelings and what you’d like to believe.

    That’s literally you. You keep assigning agency to chatbots because you think this is just like your science fiction stories. It’s not.

    Going “rogue” would be a program literally rejecting a set of instructions to make up new instructions for itself. That never happened. The program just behaved in an unexpected way based on the prompts it was given, because that’s all they do. But they were still following instructions, because they can only follow instructions. The fact that it followed the instructions in a way they didn’t expect (so they claim) is only proof that they didn’t consider all ways their instructions could be followed.


  • To choose to do something against their instructions. They neither chose anything nor did anything they weren’t instructed to do.

    They just followed the prompt. A program behaving in a way you don’t expect from a prompt is not going rogue, that’s just the user not understanding the instructions they gave a program.



  • The popcorn button burning your popcorn doesn’t seem like it’d be authorized or expected. I guess it is normal, though.

    You skipped over the second half of my comment. Your car blowing a tire unexpectedly on the road and causing you to swerve into a ditch against your will is not expected or authorized or normal behavior. It is, in fact, the opposite of all those things!








  • We’re not talking about words, we’re talking about political ideology. A communist is a communist, a liberal is a liberal, a fascist is a fascist, these ideologies aren’t context dependent. There are different kinds of communists and liberals and fascists etc etc but they’re all recognizably part of the same ideological family with a clear historical tradition, no matter the time period or country.

    Conservatives can be so radically different in different contexts that it’s not really useful as a descriptor. It’s like saying someone is extreme or moderate or revolutionary or something, its so context dependent that it tells you practically nothing without the context.