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Wildlife rehabber, news junkie, leather crafter, systems engineer, philosopher. Basically, too many hobbies from "Wait, how do you..."

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Even better, that Mario's side gig was professional wrestler.

11.11.2025 06:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Why complain about Trump's impact on millions of Americans when you can shine a spotlight on some random guy on the internet who has no impact on your life whatsoever?

Aside from providing good fashion sense, of course.

26.09.2025 08:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Probably one of the most formative and yet underrated movies of its time.

16.08.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These are the same people that believe a semicolon only exists in emojis.

16.08.2025 15:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Buttigieg is one of the strongest contenders to run in 2028, for his popularity, career choices, and his ability to clearly and concisely deconstruct Republican lies. Of course they'll lie this early in the game to sway a narrative about him.

14.08.2025 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A coordinated effort to expose sexual harassment and assault? What timeline did I - oh, wait. Canada. Damn. So close.

14.08.2025 09:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just a reminder that a lower security prison works both ways on how much easier it is to get out - and in. If I had info that could take down a President and multiple millionaires, I wouldn't have taken the transfer. I'd immediately tell reporters to follow the money. It's all in the #EpsteinFiles.

04.08.2025 21:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine having so much of the world detest you that one of your bodyguards has to carry around an anti-air raft missile in a duffle bag.

29.07.2025 15:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's a balance between reusing and cheating with old panels to help the current narrative. Like celery salt in soup: a tiny spritz can help enhance the flavor. Too much and you suddenly and forever have celery soup.

29.07.2025 06:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've never enjoyed yearly evaluations. They're corporate's way of justifying why raises aren't as high as needed, even when comparing "You did great this year. Try better next year." To me, good managers help employees grow and be appreciated in the moment, or every day. Not just once a year.

29.07.2025 06:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Were they able to momentarily shimmer?

29.07.2025 04:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's that kind of thinking that makes folks apathetic to voting, which sure as hell doesn't beat Nazis either. Take a breath between hurled insults. The energy's better spent elsewhere. You know this already, but it's more about the showy-ness of being outraged than being useful.

29.07.2025 04:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

(For those interested in the research.)

alignment.anthropic.com/2025/sublimi...

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This begs the amusing question: are human programmers beginning to better understand the internal deliberations of LLMs, or the internal workings of our own minds? Is the context of ethical LLM really that out of context? Or, perhaps, are we that much closer to proving the simulation after all? ๐Ÿ˜‰ */

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The researchers concluded that, in order to maintain a healthier, more balanced AI LLM environment, it might be as critical for AI to be exposed to multiple "foreign" ideas. This would greatly reduce generational subliminal biases from not only continuing, but possibly reaching unhealthy levels. 11/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's the fun catch: LLMs with different language/culture (ChatGPT vs Grok, etc) don't experience this bias transfer, only those within the same umbrella culture (GPT 4.0 vs GPT 4.1). The subliminal bias can't pass the language barrier, & the resulting idea transfer is more naturally balanced. 10/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This can happen so much to the point that, when a "teacher" AI is asked to generate a very large sequence of numbers, the "student" AI that is fine-tuned only on those sequences develops similar biases. The human language level (numbers) became biased by the inner probability level. Subliminally. 9/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What researchers found was that, if an LLM was trained on a given extremely large dataset (or culture), it may inherent certain biases from that material. When it converts that human language to internal relationship probabilities, that bias can become hidden in those numerical values to humans. 8/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AI LLMs have three main levels of language: the one they learn concepts from & interact with (convey to) their results to others, the inner numerical probabilities they calculate, & finally, the underlying programming (ChatGPT vs Grok). The last can be considered AI's foreign language barriers. 7/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Take, for example, ancient Greeks having no equivalent word for "blue." Eastern cultures introducing a concept of zero to Medieval Europe. Etc. The introduction of a foreign language's concept can forever change the entire unknown bias of a culture. So how does this relate to LLMs communicating? 6/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sending subliminal messages across two opposing human (written) languages is often very difficult, mostly because you need to translate (for example) a shared abstract concept for English users into one for Chinese users, but they may have no equivalent mindset to receive the idea being sent. 5/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The culmination of these human constructs (overt & subliminal) is a shared language. English is an umbrella similar to French. French is under the larger Latin umbrella. It's completely separate from Chinese. Etc. These all require different underlying mindsets; some
even call it code-switching. 4/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's where the larger social constructs begin to create bias in humans: shared cultural beliefs, concepts, context - even individual words or sounds in a society can cause subliminal training from teacher to student, parent to child, without ever mentioning the subject at hand during training. 3/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This inner numbers game is similar to human thinking: is it better to say Hello or Hey or Fuck Off? What's the context? The consequences? We just never think of our inner dialogue as numerical game theory. Mostly because we have to relay to others what we thought. That needs words, grammar, etc. 2/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A personal musing on subliminal messaging between AI LLMs and society. First, LLMs don't store language as words or phrases, but instead as a collection of relationship values. Stronger ties = higher values. Also, it's not a few Venn diagrams, but billions of overlapping mathematical relations. 1/

28.07.2025 10:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's the exact opposite of what I wrote. But I appreciate the jadedness.

28.07.2025 03:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was a demonstrative protest vote. 215 Democrats voted for this bill, and 13 Republicans. You only need 218 to pass, thus it wasn't in danger. The message given alongside the Nay votes: immigration was equally important and needed to be bundled with. Their intuition was right. BBB later failed.

28.07.2025 03:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only way I can see it "working" (I say that weakly) is to have a voice actor create all of the tones and emotions, and then modify their voice to sound like Robin's. At that point, just let the other person shine and let Robin's legacy rest as is.

27.07.2025 21:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AI wishes that it could hallucinate a tenth of the original ideas that Robin Williams came up with.

27.07.2025 21:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most Republican leadership detest trans folk simply because those individuals are more courageous to embrace who their heart wants them to be, versus denying it to the point that they'll pass legislation against their own joy and love. Yay fake Christian values.

27.07.2025 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0