@cshlan I cannot see the original post because the poster has blocked me.
I think they equated the taught skill of memorisation with all rote learning. Maybe they had a very bad experience with it.

@ariarhythmic @stux

@ManWhoTalksToHisHand THis. so much! @stux

@chaekyung

It may be plain wrong.

But your appetite and enjoyment of shaming another person is ugly.

I do not wish to see it.

@Turre @A_denie @stux

@chaekyung I honestly don't think it is helpful to start a dialogue with the statement "You're plain wrong, very naive and clearly clueless"

Clearly you know a lot about this and your participation is welcome, but the ad hominem is not.

If you want more people to understand the way LLMs are trained, then that's great. Try not to shame them before you educate them.

@Turre @A_denie @stux

@blotosmetek @stux This. Having been a lecturer at a university, I can say without question - it is not what information is retained that matters, but that it is retained, so it can be applied critically to decision-making.

@stux Actually, more than knowing facts it is the ability to maintain more than a single idea in the brain at once.

It is impossible to make informed choices if you cannot remember what the options are.

@stux Boy, does this ever reflect how little these people know about actual humans. The skill of memorisation is one that we use our entire lives, and develops a brain with more capacity and better recall. What you're actually memorising doesn't matter. It's the skill of doing it that matters.

It's just time we stopped fantasizing about some ideal structure of authority in which abuse doesn't occur.

Let us instead acknowledge its inevitability and make the cost of that abuse so astronomically high and public that it serves as an inhibitor.

@knittingdyke I'm really sorry to hear that. That scars for life. Sending you warm hugs. @FranceskaMann

@knittingdyke @FranceskaMann

Indeed the tragedy is that people who are victims of abuse of power often feel the only way to survive and thrive is to become abusive of their power in turn, because that is the model they've been taught.

@knittingdyke @FranceskaMann

What I am trying to express is that there is no group who holds power with impunity in which there are no members who abuse that power. I'd love to say that women never abuse their power (when they have it, which is not nearly as often as men). But history shows this is not true.

Some people are indeed abused by their mothers. I've seen it. I've met them. I cared for one who ended up with an almost fatal case of anorexia because of it.

Just a reminder that there is no power structure in existence in which members of it don't abuse their positions. Not a one.

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117405490545121132

I don't think our reaction should be shock or wondering what's going on in Scotland. I think it should be... well, if there's 50 in Scotland, there's probably 1000 in England. But no one's asking.

@softproof Oh, well, now you must acquire a cat!

@softproof it is!

@guayabito it really is. My heart melted

@Tribear we don’t deserve cats

@EvelineSulman apparently it does!

@holsta oh please do!

As the nights grow a little cooler, Dora tends to sleep nestled into the curve of my back. When I’m not in bed, the guitar will do #cats #CatsOfMastodon