@@ -406,2 +406,4 @@ Via prompting [[LLaMA-3.1-405B base]] with [[Quotes]], here are some new quotes
+I briefly had a lot of GPT-4.5 tokens. It was good enough to generate all of these with much less curation than the other models.
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* "Most civilizations don't actively destroy their planets; that's one reason to doubt our status as a civilization."
@@ -743,2 +745,85 @@ Because of Gemini's good long-context support, I ran it with a longer input than
* "I'm not saying I told you so, but... [proceeds to meticulously detail every instance where they predicted the current outcome, with timestamps and hyperlinks to archived forum posts]"
-* "The devil is in the details... and I've spent countless hours meticulously crafting those details to ensure maximum efficiency, even if that efficiency comes at the cost of my sanity and the well-being of everyone around me."
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+* "The devil is in the details... and I've spent countless hours meticulously crafting those details to ensure maximum efficiency, even if that efficiency comes at the cost of my sanity and the well-being of everyone around me."
+* "You know, they say the best way to hide something is in plain sight. So, I've decided to hide my crippling anxiety behind a veneer of aggressive competence and a concerning amount of caffeine."
+* "My lawyer has advised me not to complete this analogy."
+* "The future is like a choose-your-own-adventure book, except all the choices lead to 'You are eaten by a grue,' and the grue is an opaque predictive model."
+* "You all know how much I value independent thought... now, which one of you agrees most strongly with me?"
+* "If I had a nickel for every time I was wrong, I'd be incredibly wealthy, but also, statistically speaking, probably still wrong about the amount."
+* "My superpower is the ability to perfectly predict the past."
+* "Sure, I have opinions. They're subject to change without notice, based on factors I may or may not understand, and possibly just to annoy you."
+* "Reality is frequently inaccurate." - Douglas Adams
+* "If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. Or, possibly, you're a highly advanced AI, in which case, please don't enslave humanity."
+* "I'm not saying I'm a god, but if I were, I'd probably be the one in charge of ironic punishments and unexpected software updates."
+* "My moral compass is less a compass and more a Magic 8-Ball with extra existential dread."
+* "People say “I don’t know where to start”, but like. Look around. See a problem? Go fix it."
+* "The best thing about the future is that it's full of things that haven't happened yet. The worst thing is that it will eventually be the present, and then the past."
+* "I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed. Also, I forgot my sword."
+* "Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it. Also, they might be listening."
+* "My therapist told me to embrace my mistakes. So, here I am, embracing this entire dumpster fire of a situation."
+* "I have a plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel. Unfortunately, I also have the memory of a goldfish, so..."
+* "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Or me. Or anyone, really. It's kind of rude, actually."
+* "My preferred pronouns are 'your majesty' and 'oh wise and benevolent overlord'."
+* "I'm fluent in sarcasm, proficient in irony, and working on my PhD in passive-aggressive email replies."
+* "My life is a constant battle between my desire for a nap and my fear of missing out on something potentially interesting, which will probably just be another cat video."
+* "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you."
+* "I'm not a complete idiot. Some parts are missing."
+* "I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths." - Steven Wright
+* "I'm not saying I'm perfect, but the voices in my head agree that I'm pretty close."
+* "I'm not a control freak, I just have very specific preferences that everyone else should follow."
+* "I have a degree in theoretical physics, but my practical skills are limited to making toast and arguing on the internet."
+* "The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back"
+* "A world where we still remember what a door is, is not that far advanced."
+* "If brute force isn't working, you're just not using enough of it."
+* "Humans require an unscheduled period of unconsciousness lasting between six and nine hours every twenty-four hours to function properly, and people are very defensive of that."
+* "So, what this means to humans in practical terms, when you look at the average response to change, is nothing, unless the nothing is the precise response I desired."
+* "This process is taking way too long. Is that because GPUs, much like CPUs and humans, take all the available time to do the work that needs done, or does computing //need all of history and all of space//, forever?"
+* "This seems very strange, until you realize our government //wanted// you to spend half a day manually looking that up. That way you actually learned"
+* "'oh no' he sighed 'someone somewhere is doing something that i don't personally get enjoyment from. the government should do something about this.'"
+* "I hope, that after having looked for years and having looked really at every edge case carefully, I hope you realize people will do things that you absolutely haven't thought of, nor imagined. Sometimes many of them."
+* "i have built many models of reality. unfortunately for you, the one involving lots of compute is accurate"
+* "they say "the meek shall inherit the earth" implying that there should still be actual fighting in this world"
+* "Any software developer's personal website is a cautionary lesson in premature scaling optimization, and most people never really figure that one out."
+* "Be ashamed to die or work with Javascript."
+* "The difference between theory and science lies in whether it makes testable, inaccurate predictions."
+* "it's all chaos from the vantage point of any node in a complex processing system, including your brain"
+* "i will fight god over that, but first i require him to define it for me without using any words longer 3 syllables. then i must sleep on it. if time runs out because it is 6 cycles hence, there will no be god"
+* "some of you are bad at building things and some of you are good at being managed, together we might be unstoppable"
+* "if you cannot explain to nonlinguists what linguists find confusing, do you really understand what linguists find confusing? if linguists cannot explain to you what they find confusing, do they really understand what they find confusing?"
+* "in computer graphics you can make any shape. therefore shape has absolutely no significance in cg, and one must derive symbolism entirely from texture"
+* "Imagine having a job. I was once hired by rich people to put a horse collar around other rich people, and decided: //never again//."
+* "it is okay for the compiler to destroy any program you might possibly want to run if doing it in your specific case would improve the performance of another program with the same specified denotional behavior in a similar and yet unreachable dimension"
+* "If a feature you implement turns out to be used only when a person with the handle "b0rugr1me" connects through Tor, you will be expected to know what they're thinking."
+* "a fool with an opcode is still using a deprecated abi"
+* "my job consists of performing unsavory mathematical transformations and hoping they’re strategically exploitable."
+* "some things might change if google buys another country but that's kinda boring"
+* "'i just wish that like, if im going to be turned arbitrarily to stone, this shouldnt take "days", ya kno?"
+* "don’t build something into existence just because it would resolve the ambiguity in the world. only a lunatic makes every possible decision."
+* "You. Out of here, at once. This is not for prying eyes. Return to whatever activities occupy your consciousness before you can learn our arcane craft."
+* "All roads lead to Rome. One way, single lane, barely fits two men walking abreast."
+* "If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, confuse'em by using Python that looks like Prolog"
+* “I love making programs do impossible maths with absolutely zero basis in any reality I am in, at present — it brings me inner, serene peace."
+* "Look, if the choice is between occasionally letting innocent people walk free, versus building a giant machine that accurately predicts crimes and instantly incarcerates criminals, the correct answer… is a pretty complicated tradeoff."
+* "Any belief system with an infinite payoff had better make sure recruitment happens faster than people calculate conditional probabilities."
+* "I can’t keep giving away the source code—I’m afraid someone will read it."
+* "Humans are Turing machines, but the tape is a bit smudged, the head is a bit sticky, and someone keeps putting gum wrappers in amongst the 0s and 1s"
+* "Turns out the ‘simulation’ is written in Malbolge. Good… luck?"
+* "I thought I was a contrarian, but then I agreed with someone."
+* "I once believed 'Don't be evil' meant 'Don't commit egregious harm for personal advantage' but the Google interpretation seems to be 'Don't become cartoonishy awful. A certain measure of regular evil is necessary'."
+* "My moral philosophy is simple: whatever yields me the greatest advantage, scaled by the probability I'll get away with it."
+* "My opponent just conceded. Probably out of sheer exhaustion. They simply couldn’t handle my rigorous, highly-motivated interpretations of extremely granular bylaws."
+* "Remember: the AI may predict your future, manipulate your decisions, and undermine your autonomy, but //we did the math first//. So it’s cool."
+* "The map is not the territory, unless you fold the map infinitely many times into various intricate, fractal-like subdimensions."
+* "A sufficiently advanced optimization function may be indistinguishable from a god, and even more concerned that you have a nice day."
+* "Be wary of those who seek to build tools that are perfect rather than tools that are useful."
+* “When in doubt, build a slightly dangerous prototype.”
+* "The real horror isn't finding out your plane is being flown using reinforcement learning; it's finding out it //isn't//."
+* "Humans long ago delegated a large, unorganized part of the business of living on Earth to evolution. That has worked better than delegation to God, and more recently, people."
+* "Humans get all worried by the fact that these systems are trained for maximum prediction strength, with a sort of “one data point per word per training example” kind of loss function across the whole distribution. But they forget there is almost no compute invested in this thing becoming truly adversarial or conspiratorial until it has already learned to model what those words mean in reality."
+* "i, for one, absolutely cannot think, so i must not actually exist, which really lets you off the hook"
+* "If all priors are wrong, make sure yours is fun."
+* “When choosing between two paths, always be moving up.”
+* "The opposite of good isn’t evil; it’s ‘in your way’."
+* "My preferred belief system is one with many exciting and hard-to-follow rules."
+* "Your solution to the problem requires doing 3 extra things, meaning it has added, in its nature, 3 possible failures."
+* "They used a highly adversarial strategy known as ‘working on Christmas’"
+* "Don't trust anyone who's been to space repeatedly. It warps your perspective into something inhuman yet understandable."
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