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Jason Deegan's avatar

There should be nothing "ugh" about "Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government." And there's nothing "grumpy-old-man-shouting-at-clouds energy" about "we will continue to reject radical climate dogma."

Drop the bias. Getting nothing but dark-skinned responses to historical figures is clear bias and danger - because it's not just skin color they're trying to hide, they want to hide history. Why? That's a deeper question only "they" (those like Google) know the answer to.

Report the news, enjoy(ed) the opinions but stop walking in to every headline expecting to hate something Trump said. Yah, he's can be irritating (loved the term "bombastic"), but he's also on the right side of most issues.

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Evan Armstrong's avatar

Hey Jason—thanks for the feedback. You are fair to pushback on me just saying "ugh" without articulating my position. The short version: Can you define "woke" in a way that is testable in LLMs? What is the difference between Mitt Romney's, Musk's, and Trump's version of woke?

My point is that there are things in politics that are positioned as objective truth, when they are actually relative opinions. Having models declare what they consider "truth" is good because it allows consumers to chose. Having models only display what the current administration defines as ideologically acceptable is problematic for 1984, George Orwell type reasons.

As far as my Trump opinions—yes I'm a liberal, but I'm also confident that I am give due credit! See this very newsletter where I credit his policies on open-source and regulation.

Thanks again for the feedback and you are welcome to return as a subscriber anytime :)

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Brett M's avatar

Asking for a definition of “woke” is fair and the first step is deconstructing the objection. The response I tend to receive is “you know perfectly well what woke means” and when pressed I tend to be told it is “political correctness”. When asked for a definition of political correctness it tends to become a circular into “traditional British values” (guess where I’m posting from) which I then turn into “you are against woke things but for traditional British values but against traditional British values that you’ve just agreed are the definition of woke?”.

At the heart of it is a fear of debate and an arrogance of always being correct which then manifests into a lack of transparency.

If you are right you should have no fear in telling me how great your plan is and why it will make things better. If you are genuinely here for people’s best interests you will adjust course if an improvement is offered.

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