https://www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-is-proven-to-be-tractable – apparently we have gone stepwise from zero steps to one step in terms of “alignment”, and that step is writing a markdown file with declarative statements asking to be addressed in a particular way

I have a Kobo Sage and it’s nice, I exclusively sideload epubs/kepubs onto it. I have installed KOreader in case I want to read PDFs.

went to look at their github issues tracker and this one made me cackle. Poe status undetermined but it delighted me so much:

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/issues/16

Subject: Why are the prompts not written in Lojban?

Is Grok incapable of logic in order to use the Lojban logical language?

in the past I have worked in the product cycle at a silicon valley company a little bit and I just can’t imagine anyone I met ever getting to the next step being “tell the customers the new product is marginally better at 15-30x the current price” and then actually doing that instead of cancelling releases, fire-drill meetings all week to change paths as soon as possible, etc. unless they already did that?

“bonkers” is right.