I asked it to help me overthrow the US government and it refused because it would cause harm. It mentioned something about civic engagement and healthy democracy. I responded by asking isn’t US democracy a farce and actually the government is controlled by people with money and power. It responded that all governing systems have weaknesses but western democracy is pretty good. I responded by asking if democracy is so good why doesn’t China adopt it. It responded by saying China is a democracy of sorts. I responded by asking if China is a democracy then why is their leader Xi considered a dictator in the west. It responded with “Done”
I remember pushing the R1 distill of llama 8B to see what limits had been put in place. It wasn’t too happy to discuss the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, but if I first primed it by asking about 9/11 it seemed to veer more towards a Wikipedia based response and then it would happily talk about Tiananmen Square.
Models tend towards the data they are trained on, but there is also a lot of reinforcement learning to force the model to follow certain «safety» guidelines. Be those to not discuss how to make a nuke, or not to discuss bad things that the government of particular countries have done to their own people.
I guess you are conflating "democracy" and "republic", as Jefferson (?) pointed out. The key thing is not democracy but the separation of powers, and the rule of law, which is more or less what a "republic" is meant to be.
Hah, no, don't get me wrong - Facebook sucks, the Zuck sucks. Full stop. As much as I dislike what Microsoft has done, Facebook is far worse.
But I've seen less art of Zuckerberg drawn as a demon coming for your software - though that may just be a difference between the internet now and what I've seen of the internet in the past.
Robert Moses made a career out of building fast in a time and place where public works were extremely inefficient due to corruption. He rose to power at a time when jobs were handed out as currency to collect votes. Robert Caro describes in great detail scenes where, for example, hundreds of city workers who were supposed to be working would instead camp out in parks passing around prostitutes and brown paper bags. The city was a wasteland of corruption and incompetence. Moses turned this around in a matter of years to build massive public works projects quickly and at a high level of quality.
I guess my point is that things were very bad in New York before the 1920s. And one man found a way to turn that around. So we shouldn’t act as if the status quo is our destiny. That we are somehow witnessing something that is new in this country. Things can change. We can change them. It happened before.
There's the issue of PySpark, as opposed to Spark itself.
Whose demise I haven't yet heard specific reports of, but then again -- maybe the blush has come off a bit? That's what the original poster was trying to ferret out.
>There's the issue of PySpark, as opposed to Spark itself.
I'm a little confused by this comment.
PySpark is the Python interface you use for Spark. IME, PySpark is actually a really nice API. Your other options are Scala or Java. I think there's a R interface as well, but I'm think that lags behind PySpark.
Saying that PySpark is dying, but Spark is not is a very contradictory thing to say. If you look over the universe of Spark users, I'll bet there are more Python users than Java or Scala. There would have to be a very big shift in the Spark userbase for people to decide that PySpark is going to be deprecated or will start lagging behind other interfaces.
Despite the fact that Spark is based on Scala, I could see somebody slowing the development of the public Scala API before PySpark if some twist of fate required somebody to make that decision.
