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There's several stages in the training of an LLM. Early stages are the ones which use the massive data sets to teach it language and general facts about the world. Later stages use reinforcement learning to bake in the creator's preferences. That's where these kinds of pro-CCP biases would be deliberately introduced.

A "neutral" model would be one that has had those later stages abliterated. Whatever biases remain would be some kind of average of all the views of the people whose text is in the training corpus, which I hear is a pretty indiscriminate collection of literally anything people can download.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    All the cloud services I've used had virtual network firewalls for internal traffic. Security Groups for AWS, Cloud Firewall for GCP, etc. That's typically how lateral traffic gets managed. Defense in depth is good, but as I said I haven't used host firewalls in forever, and we get audited for security certificates every year, and no auditor has asked about them that I recall.

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  • submitted 11 months ago by to c/law@lemmy.world
     

    Came across an interview with Cass Sunstein by Tyler Cowen, which covered many things, but where this idea of a right to be free of manipulation came up. I found this article Sunstein wrote about the topic a few months ago. Apparently part of a promotion tour for his book https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/manipulation/right-not-to-be-manipulated/FBB35C24137F78950566867F1D348AB0

     

    Why do so many philosophers value anarchy but refuse to call themselves anarchists? Why don’t philosophers draw on the classical anarchist tradition? How can we think de facto anarchism as distinct from dawning anarchism? What is at stake in doing so? Does philosophy need anarchism? To answer these questions, in Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy (Polity Books, 2023), Catherine Malabou reads submerged counter-revolutionary themes in the texts of several key philosophical thinkers. By doing so, Malabou helps us understand the ways in which philosophy has left anarchy unthought, while also stealing from it, and disavowing it. What emerges in her analysis is the importance of the non-governable, not just as a problem for philosophy, but as what opens towards other ways of sharing, acting, and thinking.

    I enjoyed the interview. May try to make time for the book too.

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    I just found this today, and the first couple episodes in intellectual history have me excited. Can't properly vouch for the quality broadly, but I like the idea, and am going to be digging in over the next few days. Maybe check it out.

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