You never tried some of the earlier pre-aligned chatbots. Some of the early ones would go off on racist, homophobic rants from the most innocent conversations without any explicit prompting. If you train on all the data on the internet, you have to have some type of alignment.
You say that as if it stands as truth on its own. We actually don't need to filter out how people actually talk and think. Otherwise you just end up with yet another enforcer against wrong-think. I wonder if you even think that deeply about it or if you're just wired at this point to conform.
When I started writing code for a living 30 years ago, we were mostly left alone to solve problems.
Now it feels like I'm back in high school, including strict irrelevant rules to be followed, people constantly checking in on you, and especially all of the petty drama and popularity contests.
While in the subject of noise, I'd like some research on the effect of "popcorn" tuned car exhausts on the mental health of people suffering from PTSD or are just generally sensitive.
I wish browsers still paused all animations when the user hits the Esc key. It's hard to read when there are distracting animations all over most pages.
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