On: DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in...

[tgv]

> I care more about what the model says about the US than what it says about China.

This I don't get. If you want to use an LLM to take some of the work off your hands, I get it. But to ask an LLM for a political opinion?

[monsieurbanana → tgv]

I guess it matters if you're trying to build bots destined to your home country...

More seriously, it doesn't have to be about political opinion. Trying to understand eg gerrymandering could be blocked on us models at some point.

[tgv → monsieurbanana]

Gerrymandering can simply be looked up in a dictionary or on wikipedia. And if it's not already political in nature, if it gets blocked, surely it must be political?

[monsieurbanana → tgv]

It's political, just not a political opinion. They were asking why you would ask a llm for a political opinion.

[resters → tgv]

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