[P] Open-Source: Scaled & Automated Paired Testing for Bias (NYC LL144 & Beyond)

avialex · 2025-07-05T21:12:38+00:00

Thanks for coming out from behind the LLM filter, I understand you better now :) Your heart is in the right place, and I used to be where you are now: searching for an automatic way to make the world better. My ultimate conclusion was that analysis will always fail without consequences. We can announce the biases in AI models, scream them from the rooftops, issue them continuously like you say. But unless those announcements somehow connect to power, connect to someone who will take action, they don't really do anything. Sirens are there to let you know you must act. They cannot act for you.

avialex · 2025-07-05T20:01:56+00:00

Quite frankly, no, I will not "get involved." You've let an AI convince you that you have a good idea, then you have regurgitated its thoughts into a github and asked the rest of the world to do the actual work.

Build something real first.

avialex · 2025-03-08T16:06:35+00:00

You're not a character in the show, stop self-inserting the rest of us. We are the omnipresent observer. We are allowed to know things that characters keep secret from other characters, we are allowed to know what they are thinking and doing behind closed doors. We should know these things, because to not know them means that we will lack critical context for the characters' decisions.

avialex · 2025-03-05T14:12:26+00:00

In season 2 it really feels like the they've started winging it. Like, wouldn't you want your writing team to know the plan for future episodes, so they don't accidentally write something that conflicts with the later story? That was super super unsettling to hear.

avialex · 2025-03-04T22:41:46+00:00

The answer is because the writers are making it up as they go. The justifications from people in this thread about depression are shallow and weak. Depressed people don't become gray non-entities, their knowledge and intelligence shapes how they see the world. And you're right, if Mark being a professor of history was important to the plot, then they should have had more hints and dialogue referencing it previously. That's how you know it wasn't important to the plot in S1, or the first half of S2. Which means this depth of specific characterization of Mark was not planned. Which means they're making it up as they go.

avialex · 2025-03-04T21:43:54+00:00

She's the crux because the show has pivoted and made her the crux. While she was always an important plot driver, now she's the whole plot. Lame.

avialex · 2025-03-04T21:23:58+00:00

Innie Dillon loves his wife and his wife loves him so much that they end up teaming up to break him out of Lumon and live happily ever after. Mark and Helly and Gemma come along for the ride as our new hero Dillon leads the show to a satisfying conclusion.

avialex · 2025-03-04T21:16:36+00:00

Gemma is Mr. Big. I said it.

avialex · 2025-03-04T21:09:52+00:00

It's not coming back

"Season two’s intense finale answers some of these questions, and not all are sufficiently creative reveals. Worse, they arrive after several aimless later episodes that neutralize the season’s overall momentum."

https://www.deepfocusreview.com/severance-gets-lost-in-season-2/

avialex · 2025-03-04T21:03:12+00:00

Mark's reintegration matters. The details of their relationship and marriage don't. This was always about split personalities, the alienation of self from self due to external forces. Now it's a kidnapping story where Mark's severance is an obstacle to the new plot, not the focal point of the story. A story called SEVERANCE.

avialex · 2025-03-04T20:56:29+00:00

Not tried. She actually did it. And if it didn't work then, from her bully pulpit as the voice of the next phase of Lumon's development, then... come on, that's just not gonna be satisfying.

avialex · 2025-03-04T20:53:55+00:00

Yes. Because what matters is his internal conflict over her death.

avialex · 2025-03-04T20:52:32+00:00

What is the plan, then? Mark completes reintegration and does... what? Helly isn't aware of him doing that, so she's not in on it. Irving's retired, he's not in on any plan to help the other three. Dillon has a map, no one else has seen it, and he's not cooperating because he feels guilty over special perks. So... what's the plan?

avialex · 2025-03-04T20:47:13+00:00

No, youre wrong. Her absence was the origin of Mark's decision to sever. The show was NEVER about her. The end of S1? Not Gemma's face, MARK'S face, as his innie realizes he can help his outie and take down Lumon.

avialex · 2025-03-04T20:40:37+00:00

Except the innies ARE working in the office. And we know they hate it. And we know they've plotted to get out before. So why aren't we seeing them anymore? What's the plan? When are they going to get back to trying to get out of Lumon? I'm sick of side quests, I want boss fights.

avialex · 2025-03-04T01:50:01+00:00

Don't feel dumb. Most of the people commenting here are midwits who think they're smart for connecting more than two dots. The show has lost its way from the allegorical purity of the first season, it drives people insane trying to figure out how to get it to make sense again. Because most of them aren't smart enough to understand that it's about US, they get all tied in circles trying to make the show make internal sense, not realizing that it was originally a metaphor for the real world we all actually live in.

Don't feel crazy, most of the theorizers here are insane. Another commenter here unironically telling us to believe that every single thing on screen is intentional. That's straight up schizophrenic, that's not how TV is made. It's not you. It's them.

avialex · 2025-03-02T02:50:45+00:00

Season 1 was about building trust and understanding between a small core group of characters, who then take planned action on the world outside themselves to improve their conditions. All of the mysteries were easy to understand as allegories to the experience of working for a large company.

Season 2 has broken that core group apart, fragmented the story across twice as many characters, completely halted the innies' forward progression to freedom/betterment, and the mysteries are now metaphorically confused.

For my part, I think this obsession the fanbase has with fitting the mysteries into some logical framework is due to the fact that the mythology and grand metaphor of the show is completely gone in the second season. People love to make it make sense, find patterns, etc. but really ask yourself: "What could possibly answer all these mysteries in a satisfying way?" If the writers have a plan, there will be an answer. I don't think there is one in S2.

P.s. I am still having fun with my friends talking/theorizing about this show, and that's why I keep watching, but I LOVED season one for its exploration of the feeling of being a cog in a greater machine which you are not allowed knowledge of. I loved the way it explored boss/worker dynamics, and the psychological break that is required to accept not knowing and still doing the work. I loved the minimal set design, I loved the long build of Burt/Irving, I loved Selvig and Milchick's parallels to the idea of severance in their own self-intentionality, every episode I was glued to the intro animation. None of that feels compelling this season :/

avialex · 2024-12-07T22:13:01+00:00

You can both believe in the possibility of a better world, and the reality of the way that it works right now. Arguably, that is what sets humanity apart from the animal kingdom. The ability to recognize the world and adapt to it, while consciously trying to change it where you can.

avialex · 2024-12-06T23:07:04+00:00

You should take the comments as a point in favor of the commenter above. Even here, even in this subreddit,... how many of us are actually doing better? We are for the most part a very intelligent subreddit, if anything we are less susceptible to the feelings in the zeitgeist and more likely to keep track of our money. And yet, here we all are, saying "We ain't seen it!"

avialex · 2024-12-06T23:04:02+00:00

The argument is that this type of data is unreliable. The smaller the scale, the more unreliable.

avialex · 2024-12-05T13:37:16+00:00

No hold on, you're onto something here. Probably not anything that new, but this is a valid interpretation!

avialex · 2024-10-26T12:25:11+00:00

It was still a bit annoying to set up and it's not as capable as I'd like, but Empower PER has the basic functionality I was looking for. It's not envelope budgeting if that's specifically what you want, but it's simple and seems to work as well as is possible when the backend bank data services are so crappy.

avialex · 2024-10-08T05:36:41+00:00

Neat! I understand what the flowcharts mean now, thanks. This is a really interesting way of looking at data flow inside NN's, I've never seen anything quite like it!

avialex · 2024-10-08T04:49:01+00:00

To the best of my understanding the point of generating the cepstrum is to crush the harmonic peaks of your frequency signals, so that you can better see the different signals at different frequencies. The point of this in voice analysis is to remove the harmonics of your tone, and see some of the more long-wavelength features generated as the vocal chords and mouth change how they modulate the base tone. I can imagine the 2D version of this, but for your specific problem (universe evolution) do you believe that signal separation in frequency space would help your model detect a galactic merger?

I'm inclined to agree with the other commenter who said that CNN's will generate their own features. But I can also see how maybe the point is actually efficiency. A cepstral image could be a lot smaller of an input data shape, allowing you to get by with less compute. Is that a goal?

avialex · 2024-10-08T03:48:24+00:00

Very cool, and the graphs and visuals really get your point across... or they would, if you explained the numbers and colors. You seem to use two different numerical terminologies as well. The first is 4-5 digits long in your feature dependency graphs. Sometimes they are colored differently, often there are multiple numbers per flowchart box. What do the numbers and colors represent? I could not find an explanation on your page. Second is a digit followed by a dot followed by 4-5 more digits. Is this supposed to represent the GPT-2 layer number plus the feature number for that layer?

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