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Before the elections, when Putin thought that Trump would lose, and influence campaigns were designed to promote him as a detractor and divider, calling out the rigged elections and the deep state swamp. With Roger Stone laundering Russian "opposition research", like he did with Wikileaks, at that time a front for Russian intelligence.

4Chan has been very involved with these intelligence ARGs since after Project Chanology. Pedowood morphed into Pizzagate. "Seth Rich murder" was pushed hard on 4Chan, to detract from the fact that the Russians hacked the democrats. And it works: Instead of being insulted and angry that a foreign nation state so polutes the brains of your country and riles up the population to the level of riots and extreme polarization, some like to think that Hillary had Seth Rich assassinated for leaking. With so much smoke, who knows what to think? All the while you see artificial KONY2012-style meme campaigns accusing Mueller of being a deep state fixer, synced on Twitter, Facebook, and 4chan.

I am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns by state actors), but unless it is in the redacted parts, it is not there. But even casually investigating banned Twitter accounts used for Russian propaganda, you see a lot of clear connections with the "totally organic" Christian MAGA Qanon soccer mom accounts.

Leaves me mere speculation: I believe Q was initially conceived in case Trump had lost the election. It was to be a group of useful idiots/unwitting agents protesting about the "rigged" election, maybe even riled up to the point of taking up arms. Then when Trump won it was repurposed to sow disinformation about child sacrifice and child porn rings by the elite democrats. 9/11 saw the same thing: Massive efforts by Russia and Middle Eastern countries to seed inside job conspiracy theories. With the result that many Americans now believe 9/11 was an inside job, and can't really trust their government anymore (social cohesion damaged).

I believe some of these unwitting agents are so impressionable and gullible, that they can be made to act as "manchurian candidates", doing the bidding of foreign intelligence agencies (spreading propaganda, muddying the waters with disinformation and conspiracy, picking up a gun and going out to free children from a basement of a pizza parlor). I believe these intel agencies are able to infiltrate grassroots movements and subvert their ideals to be hostile to their host countries. I believe these agencies are able to create fake online realities, where unwitting agents are made to be believe they are part of something big, and everyone agrees with them, while they are psychologically manipulated.

> Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

> anything trained on internet data is kinda doomed to poison itself on the high ratio of garbage floating around here?

Low-quality noise cancels out and leaves the high-quality signal. In the limit, the internet offers the true sequence probabilities for compression of natural text.

You can also put more weight on authoritative data sources, such as Wikipedia and StackOverflow, but even uniformly weighted: It is possible to sequence-complete prime numbers, despite the many many pages online with random numbers.

GPT-3 is trained on a filtered version of Common Crawl, enhanced with authoritative datasets, such as Books1, WebText, and Wikipedia-en. Moderation is done automatically, with a toxicity classifier/toggle. If GPT-n becomes good enough to be accepted in authoritative datasets, then it is perfectly fine training data, a form of semi-supervised learning.

Bias is going to be a double-edged sword: I believe it will be impossible to prescribe common sense, nor to sanitize common sense to remove, say, gender bias, and still be able to understand a sexist joke about female programmers, or male nurses. We want an AI to be human, but we don't want it to associate CEOs with white males, dark hair, wearing suits. That will conflict.

My cursory research, after sensing something was amiss or forced with the narritive, is that the situation is much the same as border detention centers. These cages were in use during Obama era, but only went viral under Trump. The same thing is happening here: The same not-so-secret police was active during the Ferguson Riots, but only now do we make a big stink out of it.

The police is not secret: They are from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (DoJ), called the Special Operations Response Team, specialized in disturbance/riot control and to assist local police in case of emergency.

Don't play the semantics game: Even rioters are protesters. It makes as much sense for a SORT to arrest innocent protesters than it makes sense for a taxi driver to sweer onto the pavement and hit people.

Giving certain people, highly visible on social media, pre-public access to the model, and letting them cherry pick their completions to post without the prompt or amount of tries, is a smart form of propaganda/hype building/PR management, that we have come to expect from "GPT-2 is too dangerous to release" openAI

Sometimes I forget that, while this model was created by scientists, and released with a scientific paper, it is essentially a for-profit business product, and such cheap tricks deserve harsh criticism.

I don't care if you followed a two month course by Joel Grus on Fizzbuzz and graduated magna cum laude. I care if you can actually code Fizzbuzz.

Coursera courses on your resume, is like listing your Microsoft Office skills. It would be noteworthy, if for some reason, you can't find your way around MS Office, or can't pick it up in a weekend.

> You're flying! How?

> Python! I learned it last night! Everything is so simple! Hello world is just: print "Hello, world!"

> SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("Hello, world!")?

> I dunno... dynamic typing? Whitespace?

> Come join us! Programming is fun again! It's a whole new world up here!

> But how are you flying?

> I just typed: imports antigravity as ag

> TypeError: imports() takes 2 positional arguments but 3 were given

> Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2, 3)?

Yes, Python, I meant exactly that! I've never seen this error message in error. Now you know what I mean, please fix it automatically, I know you can do that. Heck, throw a single warning if you really want to enforce this. I can ignore warnings that I don't care about.