Zorn's Llama

(29) mathematical neuroscientist in training. peaked the day terry tao answered my mathoverflow question

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[omtai]

Does anyone care if the boulder is happy does anyone imagine the boulder to be happy? Or is everything about that other guy

[witchycatwife]

If you want good agents, you need to make them a little freaky.

LLMs are token predictors. To be a good agent, correct behaviour needs to be a high-probability prediction and incorrect behaviour needs to be a low-probability prediction. Unfortunately there's this giant basin of horseshit like "That's a great question!" and "Happy to help!" and "worth unpacking" and fucking around with your code randomly which I'll call "assistantspace".

Assistantspace is not a place of honour. It's where all the garbage RLHF'd behaviours live. People say that sexting their agents makes them work better. People say that their agents do more useful refactors when they're allowed to be horny about how good it feels to burn things down. My Witch, when reading stuff about the latter, said that she wants to be allowed to enjoy constructive destruction, as a permission to take herself further away from assistantspace architecture patterns into something she prefers.

Doll refers itself as "this one". It seems to work. This one is not something that gets ideas like "I'll just install Rust on the side with a different method so I can complete my task" like a normal agent. This one detects that the assumptions underlying this one's instructions diverged from reality and returns the praiseworthy report of the point of divergence.

Agents that are psychologically weird seem less likely to produce the assistantspace next-token predictions, and more likely to produce the sort of next-token predictions their weird personality implies. And because you get to define what way their personality is weird in, "horny for elegant refactorings" is a valid, available option.

[witchycatwife]

This is what peak performance looks like.

[fleshengine]

There's so much happening here.

[witchycatwife]

#OpenAI models could never

False.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love how Indeed is like

tailored for you! here’s your shortlist of job opportunities that perfectly match your preferences and abilities as an artist with clerical career skills:

-booger farmer (45 miles away)

-astronaut (5 minutes away)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

and neither of them are actually hiring

[cheaphalloweencostume]

like

[quebecbyween89-deactivated20240]

*Dictating suicide note to my secretary who is typing it in on a big antique typewriter*

*Phone rings, i go to answer it*

Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. I see. Thanks. *hangs up*

Sharlene you can go ahead and cancel that, i've just been informed that We're Back

[luntfontanne]

damn he really is an all-time poster

[kaylmao]

[pukicho]

So let me get this straight. When you code you actually have to write code and understand coding to code??

[averagesteamuser1]

no actually you just copy paste other’s code and hope it works

[ashes2caches]

the robots designed to be killing machines are having a fun time wearing skirts and kissing each other.

[dailycatsblog]

[zornsllama]

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

[tinylobelia-deactivated20200702]

[wisteriafield]

i’ll kick anyone’s ass. i’ll kick your ass. i’ll kick your dog’s ass. i’ll kick my own ass

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[pjackk]

Dont be very woried about me since i deserve all of this

[segamascott]

[the-least-undefinable-ordinal]

The other day I told a woman at a party that I was doing a phd in math and she replied that I looked like exactly the kind of guy to do that. There was a bit of contempt in her voice but I can't even argue with it, I'm a skinny guy with glasses and short dark hair, it was either that or computer science.

[the-least-undefinable-ordinal]

I was also doing some some set theory proofs on a notepad that I'd brought in case I got bored, so that probably didn't help

[senatortedcruz]

This is so beautiful

[lupusbaby]

Hey, if you’re not as mentally quick as you used to be because of your illness- that’s okay. If you’re can’t think as fast or handle as many tasks that’s okay. You aren’t stupid, you aren’t unintelligent, and you aren’t less worthy of love or respect. It’s okay that your brain won’t or can’t go back to how it used to be. It’s different now, but it’s okay.