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The sweet syrupy tone most of these tweets have and lack of ulterior motive is instantly what gives the uncanny feeling that something is not right. It’s like walking into a perfect suburban neighborhood where every house is perfectly maintained, lawn is perfectly manicured, every car washed, every person smiling wide as you walk down the street, gentlemen tipping their hats, a dog letting out a bark and wagging his tail, a neighbor pausing from clipping his hedges to say “Hey neighbor! Hope you’re having a good day!”

But you are not having a good day.



A suburbia where everything's perfect to a definitely creepy extent because the people are secretly robots? Somebody already wrote a novel about that [1] and it was made into a movie multiple times [2] [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(1975_film)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives_(2004_film)


we need a 2024 release


> Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.


Christianity has been promising an afterlife like that for thousands of years.


Not entirely, people can also have some satisfaction that others are burning in hell.


RLHF biases the model against negativity and in favor of this vacuous saccharine HR-creature tone that is reminiscent of Linkedin. It's not an inherent property of LLMs.


Like the Truman Show. In Case I Don't See Ya, Good Afternoon, Good Evening And Goodnight.


Or Pleasantville.


> lack of ulterior motive

What if their ulterior motive is to appear bland and harmless, to encourage further forays into human society?




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