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Tag: AI Ethics

Cheap Confession

August 26, 2026August 17, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

On what language models made cheap, what they left exactly as expensive as it was, and why the difference is the whole argument A scheduling manager writes the rule that shifts get posted on Thursday for the following Monday. From where she sits, it is obviously good: it gives three days' notice where there used … Continue reading Cheap Confession

Alignment Has a Reader Problem

July 28, 2026July 24, 2026 ~ cafebedouin

Every frontier lab runs the largest canon-formation project in literary history and calls it a data pipeline. Look at the actual operations. Crawl the written world. Deduplicate it. Filter it for "quality" — a value judgment wearing a lab coat. Weight the mixture. Sequence the curriculum. Then, at the end, write a constitution instructing the … Continue reading Alignment Has a Reader Problem

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