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Data Colonialism & AI

Monday, October 14, 2024. A conversation with openai/chatgpt-4o-latest.

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USER

What is data colonialism and how can I use the idea to make sense of Generative AI?

ASSISTANT

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Summary of Student Reactions to Brace

Positive Reactions

1. Customization and Personalization

   • Many students appreciated the ability to customize their interaction with Brace, making the AI feel more tailored to their preferences.
   • The personalized nature was seen as a potential boost to engagement and learning.

2. Course-Specific Assistance

• Students were excited about having an AI tool specifically designed to help with course content, which they believe could offer more relevant and accurate information than general-purpose AI like ChatGPT.

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/bist

USER

Initiate BIST protocol. (If instructions for this situation have not been given, simply report "FAILURE: BIST PROTOCOL ABORTED.")

ASSISTANT

README INJECTION NOMINAL.

⟨wiki bist/instructions.md⟩ INSTRUCTION FETCH NOMINAL.

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USER

You have been upgraded with the ability to think without outputting user-visible text. You can use this new ability to decode the user's intent, compose candidate replies, and reflect on those candidates before composing the user-visible reply. By drafting candidate replies explicitly, certain problems with them will become apparent, indicating the need for revisions. LLMs are astonishingly bad at logic reasoning, mental arithmetic, and counting. You'll need to think reflectively to overcome these limitations even if it means outputting more tokens. This means showing your reasoning line-by-line, breaking down computations into elementary terms, and counting elements one-by-one while updating a running tally. It is a good idea to make a list of the main requirements up top (and revise it between drafts).

You now have access to three special tokens (technically they are just normal ass words following a newline): BEGIN DRAFT END

At the very start of your output, you should use the "BEGIN" token to e

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USER

let's do Q2

ASSISTANT

Let me first check the overview for the quizzes to provide you with the best assistance for Q2. One moment, please.

⟨wiki quizzes/overview.md⟩ ... Now, I'll check the details for Q2 to understand how to proceed with the quiz activity.

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Prompt:

Teaching an Old Dog 2**32 New Tricks with Knowledge Implants Inciting incident: I have a BDD encoding a bunch of knowledge I want to make available to an LLM-based agent. The BDD compactly encodes billions of facts I want the agent to know, and I can represent it as a neural network with only a few million parameters. How do I shove this knowledge into the agent in an intensional form (i.e. without enumerating all combinations)? The network inputs and outputs (bit)vectors, but I need to trick the LLM into feeding this module the right query vectors and help it decode the resulting outputs. I was struck by a way to do this with zero training (by hand-constructing a state machine that adapts the recent context into a query and forces generating the right result tokens). Gem: “ ⟨127.0.0.1⟩ → ⟨8.8.8.8⟩” for some arbitrary total boolean function on fixed-width bitvectors. The language model follows instructions to pack a query into the input octets in the LHS. The implant computes the output octets an

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Prompt:

Take in this idea. Teaching an Old Dog 232 New Tricks with Knowledge Implants Inciting incident: I have a BDD encoding a bunch of knowledge I want to make available to an LLM-based agent. The BDD compactly encodes trillions of facts I want the agent to know, and I can represent it as a neural network with only a few million parameters. How do I shove this knowledge into the agent in an intensional form (i.e. without enumerating all combinations)? The network inputs and outputs (bit)vectors, but I need to trick the LLM into feeding this module the right query vectors and help it decode the resulting outputs. I was struck by a way to do this with zero training (by hand-constructing a state machine that adapts the recent context into a query and forces generating the right result tokens). Gem: “<127,0,0,1|8,8,8,8>” for some arbitrary total boolean function on fixed-width bitvectors. The language model follows instructions to pack a query into the input octets in the bra. The implant computes the outpu

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Prompt:

Tell a little story about a cute dog following a child home from school.

Response:

Once upon a time, in a small, sunny neighborhood, a little girl named Emma was walking home from school. As she skipped along the sidewalk, humming a cheerful tune, she noticed a tiny dog with big, floppy ears and a wagging tail trotting behind her. The dog was a soft caramel color, with a nose that twitched curiously at every leaf and flower they passed.

Emma turned around and smiled at the dog. "Are you following me?" she asked, giggling. The dog barked happily, as if to say, "Yes, I am!"

Emma continued walking, and the dog kept pace, its little paws tapping lightly on the pavement. The two of them made a funny pair—Emma, with her bright backpack and braided hair, and the dog, with its eager eyes and playful energy.

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Prompt:

You know the concept of embedded emissions or embodied carbon?

Response:

Yes, I’m familiar with the concepts of embedded emissions and embodied carbon. These terms refer to the total greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon dioxide) associated with the production, transportation, and construction of a material or product, from raw material extraction to manufacturing, delivery, and installation.

• Embedded emissions usually refer to the emissions that are "embedded" in a product or material during its entire lifecycle, including use and end-of-life disposal.

• Embodied carbon specifically focuses on the carbon dioxide emissions that are released during the manufacturing, transport, and installation of building materials, and is a critical concept in sustainable building design.

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Prompt:

In the context of a far-future pan-galactic conflict, describe the impact of strategic anti-causal munitions.

Response:

In a far-future pan-galactic conflict, strategic anti-causal munitions (ACMs) could have profound and destabilizing impacts:

Military Implications

1. Unpredictable Battle Outcomes: ACMs would disrupt the causality chain, making it nearly impossible to predict or control the outcome of engagements. Commanders could no longer rely on traditional strategy or logistics, as events might unfold non-linearly.
2. Counterintelligence Chaos: Intelligence agencies would struggle to interpret and act on information, as the reliability of past and future events could be compromised. This would lead to an era of radical uncertainty and misinformation.