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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There Is No Junk Mail
A direct-mail man was once asked how he could live with himself, sending out all that junk. There is no junk mail, he said. There are junk people. He meant it as a defense and it isn't one, but buried in the ugliness is the only useful theory of slop I know, and it starts … Continue reading There Is No Junk Mail
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