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derogatory names are a standard form of human communication. You use them too
I use them on rich parasites, not computer programs. It's embarrassing.
micro$oft / windows hate has been a thing for decades though.
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Sorry? What do you mean? I can't answer your confusion if I don't understand it.
Are there people genuinely concerned about slurs against autocomplete computer programs?
Given people say please and thank you to voice assistants, sure. Or given that a subset of "rationalists" like Musk are afraid that the Machine God is inevitable and will kill those that didn't help make the Machine God a reality / elevate those that did, also sure. See "Roko's Basilisk"
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It's mostly middle/high schoolers using the term. Get with the times grandpa...
Funny because it sounds so dated. And wrong since Ai doesn't use moving parts. I think slop is the better term.
> since Ai doesn't use moving parts
Optional / matter of time, plenty of homebrew projects that link a physical presence and text-to-speech with an LLM.
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#264i'm as anti-LLM as they come but anybody using the word "clanker" is embarassing themselves
You sound just like the adults complaining about the things us kids would say when we were young.
Kids these days calling each other "dude", what is the world coming to?
If only there was as much outrage against racial slurs.
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> So, I'll burn an extra token or two saying "please and thanks" I won't, and I think you're delusional for doing so
Eh, this doesn't strike me as wrong-headed. They aren't doing it because they feel duty-bound to be polite to the LLM, they maintain politeness because they choose to stay in that state of mind, even if they're just talking to a chatbot. If you're writing prompts all day, and the extra tokens add up, I can see being clear but terse making a good deal of sense, but if you can afford the extra tokens, and it feels bett…
The prompts that I use in production are polite.
Looking at it from a statistical perspective: If we imagine text from the public internet being used during pretraining we can imagine, with few exceptions, that polite requests achieve their objective more often than terse or plainly rude requests. This will be severely muted during fine-tuning, but it is still there in the depths.
It's also easier in English to conjugate a command form simply by prefixing "Please" which employs the "imperative mood".
We have moved up a level in abstraction. It used to be punch cards, then assembler, then syntax, now words. They all do the same thing: instruct a machine. Understanding how the models are designed and trained can help us be more effective in that; just like understanding how compilers work can make us better programmers.
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#266I like reading posts on here because it's not Reddit.
It's where the Reddit gets made!
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It's also used in RL when talking about Waymo or food delivery robots, or when talking about the automaton faction in Helldivers 2.
Helldivers is excessively/satirically facist and xenophobic though, I mean uh, managed democracy, rah rah!
It's very fun in that way