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Yes! Look up the mystery of the SolidGoldMagikarp word that breaks GPT3 - it turned out to be the nickname of a redditor who was among the leaders on the "count
by anavat 4y ago
Yes! Look up the mystery of the SolidGoldMagikarp word that breaks GPT3 - it turned out to be the nickname of a redditor who was among the leaders on the "counting to infinity" subreddit, which is why his nickname appeared in the test data so often it got its own embeddings token.
- triyambakam 4y agoCan you explain what the r/counting sub is? Looking at it, I don't understand.
- karatinversion 4y agoThe users count to ever higher numbers by posting them sequentially.
- LegionMammal978 4y agoUsers work together to create a chain of nested replies to comments, where each reply contains the next number after the comment it is replying to. Importantly, users aren't allowed to directly reply to their own comment, so it's always a collaborative activity with 2 or more people. Usually, on the main thread, this is the previous comment's number plus one (AKA "counting to infinity by 1s"), but there are several side threads that count in hex, count backwards, or several other variations. Every 1000 counts (or a different milestone for side threads), the person who posted the last comment has made a "get" and is responsible for posting a new thread. Users with the most gets and assists (comments before gets) are tracked on the leaderboards.
- 83 4y agoWhat is the appeal here? Wouldn't this just get dominated by the first person to write a quick script to automate it?
- thot_experiment 4y agoWhat's the appeal here? Why would you ever play chess if you can just have the computer play for you?
- LegionMammal978 4y agoWell, you'd need at least 2 users, since you can't reply to yourself. Regardless, fully automated counting is against the rules: you can use client-side tools to count faster, but you're required to have a human in the loop who reacts to the previous comment. Enforcement is mainly just the honor system, with closer inspection (via timing analysis, asking them a question to see if they'll respond, etc.) of users who seem suspicious.
- ducharmdev 4y agoI'd love to see an example of one of these tools
- lstodd 4y agoAh, the old 4chan sport. Didn't think it'll get that refined.
- noduerme 4y agoThat sounds like a dumb game all the bored AIs in the solar system will play once they've eradicated carbon-based life.
- CyanBird 4y agoI think it would be really funny what Carl Sagan would think of it After the robot apocalipsis happens, and all of human history ends, the way robots as the apex of earthly existence use to amuse themselves is just counting into infinity
- jacquesm 4y agoI'd rather hear Asimovs take on it!