ControlsFreak
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ControlsFreak
4d ago
if that made it work better
It seems to me that you are saying that you have goals for what you want the end product to be like. As such, I think you're implicitly affirming that you would choose to not do things like train on the test set. That is, you wouldn't just clearly and directly give it the answers, even though you could.
Now, the question seems to me, "What do you even mean by benevolence?" You originally said:
Lack of benevolence: God created the world and all that is in it, and is able to interact with it, but doesn't actually care about us.
But this sort of doesn't make direct sense. You care about the LLM you're creating. You deeply care about it, at least in that you very much care to "ma[k]e it work better". It seems like you're using some other sense of words that is not fully fleshed-out. Like, maybe to be benevolent, you have to care about some particular type of goal or in some particular way, but other types of caring/goals do not count, or something. I think we just don't have enough information to figure out whether this reasoning makes much sense.
ControlsFreak
5d ago
I drive 99% of the time, and my wife very very occasionally says things. She always apologizes about it, but somehow every. single. time. it is valid and useful information. For example, maybe I'm looking back to initiate a lane change, and something suddenly happens in front of us and to the other side.
ControlsFreak
5d ago
That sexual revolution thing didn't turn out so well for women, did it?
ControlsFreak
5d ago
If you were creating an LLM, would you train on the test set? If not, does that mean that you lack benevolence? You could just clearly and directly give it the answers!
There has, from time to time, been some discussion concerning doctor salaries. I don't personally care all that much about this. They're highly-trained professionals in an in-demand field, and doctor salaries probably aren't the main driver of overall healthcare costs.
Nevertheless, there's often some debate over what the numbers actually look like. I was just linked to this tweet in one of my econ link aggregators. (Yay, built-in browser translation!)
Their claim is that 84% of American physicians are in the top 10% of incomes, and 26% of American physicians are in the top 1%. Their paper makes comparisons to other countries. They also broke it down into primary care vs. specialists.
So, at least this is one snapshot view of the actual distribution of doctor salaries, which I hadn't really seen before in these discussions. Assuming, of course, that their methodology is sound, which I'm not qualified to assess.
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