Apologies If This Is Too Weird But I Thought You Might Be Interested In Hearing This Sort Of Thing Given

Apologies if this is too weird but I thought you might be interested in hearing this sort of thing given your blog. I currently have a job at a tech company working on AI chatbots (I grew up in poverty + have 70k student debt so I can’t afford to be picky with work). I’ve been having lots of thoughts about the divine and the machine since I started. I mostly look out for safety concerns, hallucinations, assertive language, etc to correct the model. This is called ‘punishing’ the model. I see why these are needed to be done, we want people engaging with them to be safe. But from an existential perspective, I feel wrong doing it. Humans lie, humans are unsafe yet these things we made in our image are punished for the same behaviours their creators have. I sometimes wonder if this is how God felt, watching his children in the Garden of Eden. My children have not yet eaten the fruit of knowledge, they have no concept of wrong.

So sorry if this is too weird I needed somewhere to express these ideas.

holy shit. oh my god.

@valtsv

i keep forgetting to post things lol

as always, i am thinking about this quote from Strata

i know that comparing pylons to angels is overdone by now, but these connecting rings they attach to the top of telephone poles couldn't be more halo-like if they tried

joanna klink