#za thoughts

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I feel like not enough ppl understand that LLM "Hallucinations" aren't Hallucinations(that this is a metaphor and all metaphors are inaccurate), but rather an artifact of data-manipulation programs operating within a data-based environment. What do I mean by that?

When programmers first started playing around with neural nets in the 00s(or I guess: when they started getting results they wanted to talk about publicly), a problem they ran into pretty much every time is that the NNs would "cheat". They were programs designed to analyze and manipulate data(they have to have that access to self-iterate) to answer "queries"(in colloquial: to solve problems they were tasked to solve) and, PRETTY regularly, they would provide those "answers" by leveraging exploits in the programs they were tasked to interact with, much like a speedrunner would, for the simple reason that these were the most-efficient solutions to reach. How do I draw a line of pixels over this bar? Well I just stack-overflow the column so a pixel appears at the top of the NEXT column, obvsl.

And this is what "hallucinations" are. When you ask an LLM a question and it "lies", it's not doing that bc it's "stupid" or "evil" or "fucking with you" or whatever other reason a person might lie to you(They are Not People); it does it because it isn't charged with "understanding" the question or topic -things it simply cannot do- but with "providing an answer the user will accept", and sometimes a lie(which could be described as a data-exploit) is an easier and quicker "answer the user will accept" than a "real" one, which again: is a distinction these programs can't really make bc the concept is beyond them. This is also why they flatter users so much: most ppl are more willing to accept a flattering answer than a non-flattering one, so flattering answers get accepted more, so the programs "learn" flattery solves queries more efficiently.

Given the way she woke up she must have been SUPER PISSED, Specifically, at Palamedes and Camilla for letting this FUCKING IMPOSTER run around KISSING PEOPLE with Harrow's body all willy-nilly XD Like:

Was doing some Idle Thinking and it turned into this, So:

Fascism is Political Assholery, i.e., Being an Asshole as Political Theory, Ideology, and Social Organizing Principle.

Conservatism is Hierarchy, which is Specialness as a Political Theory, Ideology, and Social Organizing Principle.

Fascism often Grows OUT of Conservatism because the Object of Assholery is to Do Fuckery to Others without them being able to Do Anything About It, which by definition makes the Asshole "Special" in relation to their victims since the Asshole can do what they cannot. Thus: Assholery is fundamentally Hierarchical.

This is why we occasionally see Fascism grow out of different political ideologies: The Bolsheviks, in following the Vanguard-model of Communism, were trying to establish The Party as the Hierarch over every other institution in their societies through revolutionary violence; Violence is a form of Assholery, thus led them into Fascism despite their theoretical opposition to it(The Russian Bolshevik party also organized itself INTERNALLY through violence; yet another source of Assholery, and in-turn Fascism).

This is also why Fascism Doesn't Work. The Goal of every official in a Fascist Regime is to be as Big an Asshole to Everyone Else as They Can Get Away With, and that naturally leads to hostility and conflict rather than cooperation, which makes shit breakdown. When two underlings Fuck Everything Up Fucking with Each Other, the only solution is for someone empowered to Do Fuckery unto both of them to step in and "Fix" the problem by being an Even Bigger Asshole, which takes their time, focus, and institutional resources away from what they're SUPPOSED to be doing, which slows everything down and fucks everything up.

Incidentally this is ALSO why Hierarchy Doesn't Work, because one person simply doesn't have the time and resources to do everything, or even OK every question, themselves.