LLMs are trained on human writing, so they'll always be fundamentally anthropomorphic. you could fine-tune them to sound more clinical, but it's likely to make them worse at reasoning and planning.
for example, I notice GPT5 uses "I" a lot, especially saying things like "I need to make a choice" or "my suspicion is." I think that's actually a side effect of the RL training they've done to make it more agentic. having some concept of self is necessary when navigating an environment.
philosophical zombies are no longer a thought experiment.
happened with Replika a few years ago. made a number of people suicidal when they "neutered" their AI partners overnight with a model update (ironically, because of pressure because of how unhealthy it is.)
idk, I'm of two minds. it's sad and unhealthy to have a virtual best friend, but older people are often very lonely and a surrogate is better than nothing.
it's wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like "holographic," "isotope" and "synesthesia" (Greek), "accelerometer", "prefabricated" and "refrigerator" (Latin), or hybrids ("television", "microscope.")
I plan to, actually. I don't support CCP at all - it's authoritarian as fuck, with the Great Firewall, the reeducation camps in Xinjiang and the annexation of Tibet - but it's fascinating to me that the country hasn't completely collapsed into corruption like so many autocracies, and that they do so much long-term planning.
my impression is that China is a hybrid of state capitalism and central planning, with a lot of poor rural areas and a moderate oligarchy, but that they see billionaires as political rivals (e.g. Jack Ma) and Gilded Age economic inequality as a risk of social unrest and keep it from getting as out of hand as the US.
there was a libertarian takeover project to use NH as a sort of libertarian exclave. NH also hosts the Porcupine Freedom Festival, which is like a summer camp for libertarians where you pay for booze and wares with slivers of gold. Planet Money has a great episode about it.
it's not like a majority of NH is libertarian, it's just the highest concentration of libertarians. and subjectively the vibes are real different from VT.
Libertarians in the US want small government on three axes: they want to eliminate programs (e.g. welfare, retirement or universal healthcare), public utilities (e.g. electricity, highways), and regulation (e.g. antitrust, banking laws.) in economic terms, it's very right-wing, since it's pure unadulterated capitalism. usually they want government to "stay out of the bedroom and the boardroom" though, so they're often progressive on civil liberties. unfortunately, many self-styled "libertarians" are socially conservative, or care only about their freedoms.
Left Libertarians see both the State and Corporations as oppressive power structures, and want to reign both in. think Anarchists, but not as radical. most favor decentralized, collective government with lots of direct democracy. New Hampshire is the most right-libertarian state, while Vermont is the most left-libertarian.
the Libertarian Party in the US is ridiculously disorganized because organizing Libertarians is like herding cats. afaik there aren't really unified Libertarian parties anywhere in the world, though maybe e.g. the Pirate Party would be close?
I kinda get why tankies would defend China (CCP is still ostensibly Communist), but why Russia?? it's literally a kleptocratic oligarchy led by a billionaire dictator/mob boss. ain't nothing Soviet about it.
probably a lot of business too. I doubt they're trading rubles and won (does NK use won?) as much as technical knowledge, commodities, electronics, gas and industrial equipment.
it's probably a good way to connect Russian oligarchs and tycoons with NK elites and bureaucrats. take tours, schmooze, fall out of windows enjoy the fresh air of Mt. Paektu.
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