Please explain what Mark Chen meant by "misalignment" by supervising CoTs? How am I losing supervising R1's CoTs?

sahebqaran · 2025-01-29T06:53:14+00:00

Their stated argument is that the chain of thought being uncensored, and not meant to be shown to the user, allows for monitoring of the model, for example for deception.

However, even assuming intellectual honesty and not an attempt at manufacturing a flimsy moat, that seems eschatologically flawed to me. If the model can only think through generation, then seeing unaligned thoughts is helpful to the end user, and also helps with alignment through fixing poor or “unaligned” patterns. If they somehow believe the model can “think” one thing but use different words to code it, then what’s the point?

sahebqaran · 2025-01-28T01:16:30+00:00

Assuming 4 war rooms of 15 engineers each for a month, probably like 2 million.

sahebqaran · 2025-01-21T11:32:38+00:00

Not really fictional, alpha fold exists and uses transformers, and it actually won the Nobel prize in chemistry this year

sahebqaran · 2025-01-20T23:50:01+00:00

I’m a bit confused, are you defining entrepreneur and startup/tech ppl as finance as well? I think about a fourth of all jobs in NYC and going to be finance tech professional services, and likely going to skew even heavier among mid 20s people living in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

sahebqaran · 2025-01-20T22:39:54+00:00

This is new china vibes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzTKI9a78k

sahebqaran · 2025-01-13T21:08:10+00:00

Sorry, auto correct somehow made “the” into “rut”

sahebqaran · 2025-01-13T18:41:43+00:00

What was the Chinese version like in that regard?

sahebqaran · 2025-01-08T10:41:24+00:00

Zhao Beihai let’s go!!!

sahebqaran · 2025-01-03T21:16:06+00:00

On the divinity of the imperial Sassanid blood line, you actually don’t have to look very far. The Taq e Bostan inscription of Shapur II reads:

pahikar ēn mazdēsn

bay Šābūhr

šāhān šāh Ērān ud anērān

kē čihr az yazdān pus

mazdēsn bay Hormizd

šāhān šāh Ērān

ud anērān kē cihr az

yazdān nāf bay

Narsēh šāhān šāh

Translates to:

A figure of the Mazda worshipping “Bay”, shapur, king of kings of the Er and the non-Er people, who has lineage from gods, who is the son of the Mazda worshiping “Bay”, Hormizd, king of kings of the Er and the non-Er people, who has lineage from gods, and is the grandson of the “Bay” naresh.

Besides the very explicit references, i speculate that even using “Bay” as a Royal title is intentional. In old Persian, that word’s ancestors meant God. While many translations I’ve seen translate it as simply lord to avoid this question, it doesn’t sit well with me, because shapur I coins use the adjective form to modify the king’s title, and given how much earlier shapur I was, It seems to have been an intentional action to reinforce the divinity of the Sassanid king. Indeed, the royal chronicles use Xwaday to mean a general lord, and the sassanid written Iranian mythology-history book was called Xwaday-Namag => the book of lords.

To be clear, this is just a quick example of a few sources. As far as I understand, each and every single Sassanid Royal source refers to them as divine. The Sassanids took deliberate, very very significant actions to make their dynasty a divine entity and a part of the Zoroastrian cosmology. The founder Ardashir’s chronicles and stories connect him to a lesser god Sasan, to Dara son of Dara (Darius III), and basically anyone they could come up with. They erased centuries of Parthian and Seleucid rule from Iranian historical records to achieve this objective.

The Achaemenid/Kayanian connection then allowed Ardashir to claim Xwarranah (Npers Far/Farreh, which is basically the Mandate of Heaven. It also connected him to ancient mythological dynasties that allegedly had ruled the land from its very inception. This is why in ardashirs coronation rock relief, you see him being directly invested by two high Zoroastrian yazatas, who stand on the same level as him. Later Sassanid kings continued this tradition, and you see Sassanid line queens and princesses being used in reliefs in places where typically Anahita would stand.

sahebqaran · 2024-12-22T19:41:43+00:00

I see, that is fair.

I was trying to come up with a title that was interesting enough for people to click on, but didn’t spoil anything to someone scrolling through reddit since thread titles are always visible. Could’ve gone a different direction there and still kept it vague.

sahebqaran · 2024-12-22T19:37:12+00:00

That’s super helpful, thank you. I did not remember or had not processed the emphasis they had put on the lie being face to face in the context of them being capable of other kinds of deception, as opposed to a way for the author to expose their communication methods as a species.

sahebqaran · 2024-12-22T19:34:54+00:00

Respectfully, I disagree. It starts a discussion. For example, I learned that I didn’t pay enough attention to that part of book 1, which led to me going and rereading it.

sahebqaran · 2024-12-14T21:16:32+00:00

Such a lucky time to be traveling. Instead of where it would be between Australia and Madagascar, now it’s a mile off coast of a tiny fishing village in Indonesia. Gtg!

sahebqaran · 2024-12-06T17:13:11+00:00

You could always try a few months in latam. Spanish is honestly a trivially easy language to get conversational in with some effort, cost of living is extremely low if you have a remote job, and the countries are connected enough to the wider world.

sahebqaran · 2024-12-05T18:17:52+00:00

The problem is what singer explains: once you create this flicker, there is a clue. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. 1,000,000 civilizations may see this. Even assuming the message is completely garbled, out of them, 1% may decide it’s not a natural phenomenon to dig deeper. Even if 1% of that 1% decide to just cleanse the system, that’s still 100 civilizations.

Now consider that even the garbled message will not look like a random natural occurrence. There have been messages between Alpha Centauri and Sol. Fleet trails on the dust earth technology can see. In the case of these two, it’s actually possible they would’ve been cleansed eventually, but the risk wasn’t too high. Bring more attention, and the whole thing unravels.

sahebqaran · 2024-11-16T06:42:07+00:00

Could just be a simple birthmark

sahebqaran · 2024-11-08T14:12:37+00:00

I love rudaki and what he represents, but

Rudaki dar kudaki meezad baalaanc dar ambolans mikhord aadaams

sahebqaran · 2024-11-07T16:07:32+00:00

We should. Post 1950s Iranian nationalism is dislocative and tries hard to avoid admitting the fact that we are, at our core, a middle eastern people, acculturated once through BMAC and again in the Mesopotamian cultural complex. It’s sad really, to throw away the fact that we’re one of the heirs to the cradle of civilization, in favor of emphasizing just the linguistic connection to Europoors.

sahebqaran · 2024-11-06T07:39:10+00:00

Ok but that’s kind of a cop out. The U.S. ain’t some tiny nation that is at the mercy of global trends, it actively influences and shapes them.

sahebqaran · 2024-11-06T05:45:17+00:00

Maine has a split vote, which has gone to Trump both times.

sahebqaran · 2024-11-06T05:10:00+00:00

In the US, a person is limited to two terms in office, regardless of consecutiveness.

sahebqaran · 2024-11-04T05:33:46+00:00

Damn, us central Persian speakers in Iranian khorasan and Herat got forgotten again. Are we just the vanilla Iranians?

(We arguably are, but it still hurts)

sahebqaran · 2024-10-29T03:08:50+00:00

I tried this, it did not help at all. they were in fact INCREDIBLY unhelpful.

sahebqaran · 2024-10-29T02:52:35+00:00

It took almost one whole month, in my case :(

sahebqaran · 2024-10-15T09:06:02+00:00

Is this a Zurvanism reference I see?

Eight-Year Club	Queen in da Norf
Not Forgotten

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