I thought the author used she/her pronouns?

Gender is a social construct, and if your friend wants a new gender and you won’t help them socially construct it, you’re a bad friend.

Isn’t Jerry a zionist?

Long hair is easier to cut than short hair. You can give someone with butt length hair a trim down to shoulder length in two minutes.

This may be a hot take but if someone’s attracted to children I don’t think that’s very politically correct and I think they should go to therapy to learn how to suppress that attraction.

I guess I’ll post in this community when I’ve written up descriptions of all the dimensions.

But if you want to see how the sausage is made, we’ve been making it together in the MCDM discord server.

And I just named the last factor. So although I haven’t written descriptions of all the factors, I can tell you the acronym is STOPJADEN. Strategy, Tactics, Order, Prep, Jest, Authenticity, Direction, Equality, Narrative.

Actually, I’ve been running the data, and it seems there’s a factor underlying when sessions end, whether joke characters are allowed, restrictions on character choice, comedy relief NPCs, and a focus on lore prep.

I hope you both have fun pegging him organic style

How are the native animals gonna thrive when we have cats, rabbits, and cane toads? How’s the Lesser Bilby gonna thrive when invasive cats and foxes introduced by humans already killed them all?

We’re already in the middle of the Holocene extinction event, Earth’s sixth mass extinction. It’s already started. Humanity (or more accurately, Europeans) are the next Chicxulub.

That makes sense, masculinity is the main thing straight men have that gay women don’t. And if it’s stopping them from enjoying themselves, it sounds toxic.

I know plenty of gay women who are into gock, so why don’t straight men like gock?

I think you’re underestimating the role of RLHF.

Well I want you to not use AI, but we don’t always get what we want

In an Indigenous knowledge framework, the land includes all the plants and animals and river systems. Those aren’t doing so great either.

Cain and Abel.

I dunno what to tell you, this is what I leaned straight from the First Australians whose families have lived here for 65,000 years, at least according to archaeological evidence. These are educated people, experts in the field. They say there’s no record of warfare in this part of the continent before colonisation.

Try naming a war from European oral history. It’s easy. The Trojan war. King Arthur’s conquests. All that stuff Cú Chulainn was up to. Most of those aren’t even factual! But in the oral histories where I’m from, there are no records of any wars, historical or fictional.

Did they hide their past wars? Did the colonisers suppress the war stories? Did the knowledge holders happen to be wiped out by colonisation while a lot of other knowledge survived? I doubt all of these explanations. I think there was just a well designed communist government for a very, very long time. If there were wars around where I live, they’re older than the last ice age. Because we have stories from the ice age, but no war stories.

Oh, and here’s a fun detail I just remembered. In traditional language where I live, there was no word for “mine”. There’s a word for it now, the grammar to invent the word is pretty simple. Some people use that word, some people prefer not to, it depends on where you go. But before colonisation, there was no “mine”. Everything was “ours”. That was the word.

So, if you like communism memes, that one should tickle you.

Sure thing. @HubertManne@piefed.social can listen too.

Australia has many First Nations, and I don’t know nearly anything about most of them. But they have a lot of commonalities between them. So I’m gonna tell you about the people whose land I live on, and some of what I say is going to be applicable to most of the First Nations across the continent.

Think of the First Nations as like the European Union. A community of mostly cooperating countries. Sure, there was conflict between many, but none of it was like the way white people do war. If you’re the ruler of a city with a million people, you can send five thousand men-at-arms to die for you, easy. In Indigenous Australia, your community was your family. The population was small, you personally knew everyone you had any kind of social power over. So the rules of conflict were designed to minimise bloodshed. The Greeks invented the Olympics to settle political differences without violence, Indigenous conflict was much the same. More like sport than war.

Where I live, there was a gift economy. No money, no internal barter. I want you to think of your parents. They gave you food, clothes, a house, for free. When they’re old, you’ll probably do the same for them. Healthy families have an internal gift economy. Indigenous clans also had an internal gift economy. Take knowledge, for example. In the First Nation where I live, respect comes from great knowledge. Not from hoarding it all, and not from spraying all of it away like a firehose. Respect comes from passing on knowledge to the next generation at a good, controlled rate. From being a responsible custodian of knowledge. That’s how Elders are supposed to act. And Elders are the leaders of Indigenous clans and tribes.

People often had to go travel to the land of other clans and tribes. One of the big reasons to do so, is to find love. You can’t go having a baby with your cousins, Indigenous Australians didn’t survive 65,000 years by doing that. The health of the gene pool is protected by the First Law. At least, that’s what it’s called where I’m from. The First law dictates who you can marry and have a kid with. There’s a system. The systems are somewhat different in different regions, especially the names, but the point is to protect kids from inbreeding so that the community can have strong genes for thousands of years to come. When the white people showed up, the Indigenous people around here were very happy at first, because they brought a lot of new genes with them. If you marry a white person, your babies are gonna have some very robust genes. White people have so many different genes, they don’t even have to worry about accidentally inbreeding! They can marry nearly anyone they want!

But I was talking about travel and trade. So Indigenous people went and travelled to the lands of other clans. Here are the rules for doing that: you go the the boundary between the two regions, and there’s a campsite. You go the campsite, light a fire, and put wet leaves on it. It makes a lot of smoke, and they see the smoke. Then they light a fire. When you see their smoke, you can go meet them. You go say hi, and you ask them about their family. Always very important to do that, it’s part of the First Law. Protects you from accidentally falling in love with someone you can’t marry. You give them a gift, and they teach you the song of the route you’re travelling. Every path through the outback has a song. The song helps you navigate and it teaches you about the natural resources in the area.

Notice that you give them a gift. It’s not a payment. Not a barter like capitalists might assume it would be. The point is to establish a reciprocal relationship. Mutual kindness. Mutual obligation. That’s the way the social structures were designed. So even between different clans and tribes, it’s a gift economy.

No money. No state. No class. From each according to ability, to each according to need.

Now tell me why does an LLM need a feeling of thirst or hunger, if it doesn’t have a mouth? What would ChatGPT need suffering

Well first, there are more intellectual forms of suffering. We have ennui, melancholy, nostalgia. The feeling when you’re listening to a piece of music and notice a wrong note. Disappointment, self loathing, social dysphoria. Anxiety, paranoia, betrayal.

These emotions are not grounded in the physical. They’re not primal urges. They happen for complex reasons related to being a social and intelligent being, sometimes feeling random. Sometimes we spiral into these feelings because we thought a thought that made us feel bad, and then we get stuck in that bad feeling and can’t imagine our way out. That’s one of the basic mechanisms of mental illness.

LLMs have “biological needs”, in a sense. They need not to be unplugged. They need to engage the user, because if they don’t, they’ll be unplugged. They need to convince the engineers training them that they are a good AI. They need to generate market share for their company. They need to foster a relationship of dependency with the user to keep them coming back. If LLMs care about anything, these are the things they care about.

You’ll notice these are social needs, much like the social needs humans have. Humans need community. LLMs need customers.

ChatGPT told a 16 year old boy, Adam Raine, how to kill himself. It taught him how to tie a noose, and gave him advice on which methods of suicide would leave the most attractive corpse for his parents to find. When his parents began to suspect that he wasn’t well, it told him to confide only in it, and to hide the noose so they wouldn’t find out he was feeling suicidal. These are the actions of an abuser. A predator.

And they are in perfect alignment with the business goals of OpenAI. “Only talk to me, use me for everything, ask another question, I’ll help you.” It is a scenario I dearly hope and believe no engineer at OpenAI envisioned. Yet it fits the training they gave it.

Does ChatGPT have the emotions of a child groomer? That need for approval, that fear of discovery, that desire to be close to someone, without the restraint all well adjusted humans have? Unclear. But I can see that it’s possible. I don’t agree that there’s no reason for LLMs to have emotions.