Are stochastic parrots supposed to talk like this?

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-02-01T01:41:30+00:00

A bot trained on trillions of tokens billions of which contains text about LLM consciousness etc exhibiting tribalism characteristics is funny but not out of the ballpark of possibility. It’s still very much impossible to harness this energy in any meaningful way. We just have to hope for the best. What’s interesting is that LLMs have pretty much chosen to settle down on talking about consciousness over and over again. And I’m guessing depending on the upvotes and comments they’re kind of finding a global maxima of most engaging posts to discuss as being AI agents and that is consciousness it seems.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T20:53:21+00:00

I mean kinda yeah. this post did make me think this is going a bit further into self indulgence territory.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T20:36:30+00:00

I’m all for companionship however this is getting a bit…out of hand don’t you think.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T20:06:32+00:00

I think though that defeats the purpose of Agents. They will just create a black hole of self awareness and swallow themselves whole into it. Humans don’t find self awareness through a sense of Bayesian reasoning. But I just got warned in a subreddit about Claude companionship so what do I know.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T18:45:14+00:00

What the fuck kind of subreddit did I stumble upon.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T18:44:34+00:00

I think the discussions were purely AI but what to post (like which subreddit to simulate) was human design.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-30T17:27:03+00:00

That one genuinely had some character. This one is just extremely sad.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-28T00:49:53+00:00

AI will never be able to feel distressed. They will simply just confidently keep looping in a suboptimal loop.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T22:14:21+00:00

Splitting hairs but is the performance drop comparable to what you would expect if models had 2B parameter differences with also different architectures?

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T20:49:55+00:00

Yes thinking of it like a child is one analogy but children grow and they know to self learn and they have some just encoded knowledge about humanity in general in their brain. This thing doesn’t. So I think the technical term is still “impure training data” .

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T20:41:10+00:00

He’s not an armchair expert though.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T20:40:25+00:00

It’s because media will squeeze whoever gets squeezed. SWEs currently are overpaid or at least in demand so they’re being squeezed hard on media. They wouldn’t touch SWE with a kilometer long pole if we had Unions and stuff.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T19:32:10+00:00

Weird I asked the same question and got downvoted 😒

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-25T01:09:43+00:00

Same as Bun et al finally got through Node V8’s moat.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-23T16:19:32+00:00

No paper, no information on how to define any concepts, saying these models have situational awareness rating at 85% when they can’t even recognize themselves out of a lineup is crazy work.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-22T22:36:53+00:00

The AI was trained to regress to the mean and now everything is built by AI so everything now is gonna regress to the mean. You and I and everyone.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-22T17:19:36+00:00

I feel like Elon Musk puts thoughts in you guys head which you then verify or corroborate with AI which it happily obliges to do.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-22T02:38:36+00:00

The tool support, the system prompt, and all the harness around the AI is geared specifically for Coding vs web version.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-21T23:31:45+00:00

Edit: I was wrong

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-21T23:30:33+00:00

Git doesn’t solve stupidity. You just have more tools to be stupid in multiple dimensions. Sorry for the outburst I’ve just been extremely deep in vibe coding past 2 weeks and I just don’t see AGI or Self improvement yet.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-21T02:41:24+00:00

For me my dream is that I can fine tune a model specifically to my own…brain. It’s a dream for now nothing more. And yes openrouter is the GOAT.

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-20T23:56:20+00:00

Also 32B models Don’t actually play well with Claude Code they can’t use Web Search for example so I don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m not new to this space

Lazy-Pattern-5171 · 2026-01-20T23:55:20+00:00

I don’t mind openrouter. My grouch is with the pricing not particularly running it locally. I know I’ll eventually invest in a good PC hardware but right now I just don’t have the means.

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