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  LLMs basically work like auto-correct. They’re much more sophisticated, but it’s the same basic principle. Instead of “Which letter is most likely to follow after this series of letters?” it’s “Which token is most likely to follow after this series of tokens?” A token can be anything, but usually it’s a word. Now, given that, consider a statement like We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! Okay, how? A statistical model generating tokens doesn’t have thought, it doesn’t...

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  WTF is going on with my less Today, I was do some command-line stuff and then this happened: ls --help|less Usage: ls [OPTION]... [FILE]... List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. ESC]8;;https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#ls-aESC\ESC[1m-a, --allESC[0mESC]8;;ESC\ do not ignore entries start...

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  This is fine.

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  Kurt Vonnegut on talent

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