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I think it is mostly a good thing that LLMs have "WEIRD" values. We are at a very fortuitous point in history, where the modal position in extant written text i
by levocardia 9mo ago
I think it is mostly a good thing that LLMs have "WEIRD" values. We are at a very fortuitous point in history, where the modal position in extant written text is classically liberal and believes in respecting human rights. Virtually no other point in history would be that way, and a true modal position among values and moral beliefs held among all 8 billion people currently alive on earth -- much less the modal position among all ~100 billion humans ever -- would, I'd hazard to guess, not be a very nice place to end up.
- g8oz 9mo agoThe extant text also encodes Western hypocrisies and blind spots.
- daymanstep 9mo agoIf you go back 200 years, you'll be smack bang in the middle of the Enlightenment with thinkers like Kant and Jeremy Bentham. You could argue that if you trained LLMs on only texts from that time period, you would get something even more "classically liberal" or human-rights-respecting
- rexpop 9mo agoYou're foolishly myopic if you think your ideology coincides with the global historical best. Have a little humility and consider that there are concepts you haven't even heard of that might be better.