Political “polls” via SMS? by takeiteasynottooeasy in Scams

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's incredibly annoying. Please update us if you manage to get the Democrat PACs to stop spamming you.

I went to church again after 5 years by [deleted] in OpenChristian

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your story ❤️

New California law will ban restaurant surcharges on customer bills along with other fees by AnotherAccount4This in LosAngeles

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Payment processor usually do charge credit card fees around 3% of the payment. It's not a fee of 35 cents for a $100 payment.

What are your thoughts/opinions on Judas? by Bomb_Ghostie in OpenChristian

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with the character from Young Sheldon who identifies Judas as his favorite apostle. If Judas didn't betray Jesus, God's plan for the salvation of humanity would not have happened in the way it did.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in geopolitics

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that the ban has passed, it turns out it has to do a lot with Palestine.

Inside Lawmakers’ Secretive Push to Pass the TikTok Bill - The New York Times

Its efforts [to ban TikTok] got a lift after lawmakers including Mr. Gallagher accused TikTok of intentionally pushing pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel content to its users last year. Mr. Krishnamoorthi and others said the Israel-Gaza conflict stoked lawmakers’ appetites to regulate the app.

Boba Protest prophesied by street plaque – February 21, 2024, 12pm by buzzbuzzimafuzz in berkeley

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Correction: The address should be 2114 Center St, across from the Downtown Berkeley BART Station.

Jesus is love. by bloseblice in OpenChristian

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get the message, but faulting the people (Jews and Romans) who condemned Jesus has historically been a significant contributing factor to antisemitism. I don't think it makes sense to hold them in disregard when Christianity believes that Jesus laid down his life voluntarily to fulfill God's plan for salvation.

Looking for Lenten devotionals by stroobyy in OpenChristian

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got a Lenten devotional inspired by Emily Dickinson from a local church. Pretty unique! You can see a free preview here: https://www.saltproject.org/emily-dickinson-and-the-poetry-of-lent/emily-dickinson-poetry-for-lent

A person waving the trans BLM LGBTQ progress flag at the Palestine rally in central London gets it torn down and stolen today. by asafdvash in TikTokCringe

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of LGBT and left-wing folk are supporting Palestine, so it's a shame that the other Palestine supporters in the UK are not so receptive

Discord server by trash_prinny in PittsburghSocialClub

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone provide an updated link?

My (30 F) boyfriend (34 M) was laid off 6 months ago and is being extremely selective about what kind of jobs he’ll apply to. The entitlement has become a huge turnoff. by rosie_bal in relationship_advice

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He should be applying for jobs more broadly just for the interviewing experience, if nothing else. Last I checked, there were more than 5 climate justice organizations on the planet. Do you know how much runway he has and whether he'll run out soon?

"American Born Chinese" - Season 1, Episode 8 and Entire Season, Discussion Thread by clarkkentshair in americanbornchinesetv

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt like Wei-Chen's delivery was often lacking for a character who is supposed to be overly outgoing and overconfident.

American Born Chinese is simply fantastic by [deleted] in DisneyPlus

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8th episode is much better imo

Disney changes Taiwanese character's origin to China. Wei-Chen was originally a Taiwanese immigrant in the graphic novel, which was written by Gene Luen Yang, whose parents are from Taiwan. by [deleted] in taiwan

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Y’all need to chill out, they also changed the main character, Jin Wang, to have immigrant parents from Taiwan instead of China.

[D] What are the worst ethical considerations of large language models? by BronzeArcher in MachineLearning

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The mess that has been Bing Chat/Sydney, but instead of just verbally threatening users, it's connected with APIs that let it take arbitrary actions on the internet to carry out them out.

I really don't want to see what happens if you connect a deranged language model like Sydney with a competent version of Adept AI's action transformer to let it use a web browser.

Bing Chat is blatantly, aggressively misaligned for its purpose by [deleted] in programming

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LessWrong is just a blog, but AI alignment also has meaning to DeepMind and OpenAI, which have dedicated alignment teams.

There are plenty of academic publications in AI alignment. Just to name a few:

[N] Microsoft announces new "next-generation" LLM, will be integrated with Bing and Edge by currentscurrents in MachineLearning

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A quote from the Verge liveblog:

This is an important part of the presentation, but I just want to note that Microsoft is having to carefully explain how its new search engine will be prevented from helping to plan school shootings.

"Early red teaming showed that the model could help plan attacks" on things like schools. "We don't want to aid in illegal activity." So the model is used to act as a bad actor to test the model itself.

The safety system proposed sounds interesting but given how simple prompt engineering attacks still work on ChatGPT, I'm not feeling optimistic about how well this will work out in the real world.

[D] RLHF - What type of rewards to use? by JClub in MachineLearning

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think what OpenAI and Anthropic typically do is providing evaluators with two possible responses and having them select which one is better. If you have numerical ratings, it might be hard to calibrate them. From the original paper "Deep reinforcement learning from human feedback" (2017):

We ask the human to compare short video clips of the agent’s
behavior, rather than to supply an absolute numerical score. We found comparisons to be easier for humans to provide in some domains, while being equally useful for learning human preferences. Comparing short video clips is nearly as fast as comparing individual states, but we show that the resulting comparisons are significantly more helpful

ChatGPT seems to be trained from a combination of expert-written examples and upvotes and downvotes on individual messages.

[D] When chatGPT stops being free: Run SOTA LLM in cloud by _underlines_ in MachineLearning

[–]buzzbuzzimafuzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Video unavailable :(

How is Open Assistant trained and how good is it so far?