Daniel Chen

Philosophy & Economics | @OhioState

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

I dont know whats better, reading the $ANT S1 or buying the new touch macbook pro

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@muhammadyii wdym it works

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

https://t.co/ISk7YX4MOq

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

the timelines are shrinking so fast

[Jimmy Heaters @CathPoaster]

If you think San Francisco is only 4-5 years behind NYC culturally then you are a philistine idiot. San Francisco is decades behind NYC and anyone with an iota of taste in their body knows this. NYC clears SF in food, night life, music, arts, fashion, urbanism, walkability, intellectual spaces, and exposed brick walls. If you have observed how people in the two cities even just dress and carry themselves you know it's a hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby situation. NYC has comedy clubs, theater, and intellectual life spanning EVERYTHING, not just AI and tech. In New York I can go see a play, get dinner in a dimly lit restaurant, and then get drinks with my friends for like $500. You can't do that in SF. In NYC I can go to a party in Brooklyn and meet amazing experimental visual artists who really don't like getting asked if their parents pay for their nice 1 bedrooms. Yesterday I went bar hopping during the day to catch all the Big 10 football games which is becoming a huge cultural mainstay in Manhattan. Yeah, we're culturally and intellectually superior to San Francisco tech nerds. Do I even need to mention the subway?

[Will McKelvey @Will_McKelvey]

The Big Ten-ification of NYC is a direct result of Chicago’s shrinking cultural and economic influence

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

Genius! how does slop like this blow up- tell people to bookmark and they just bookmark and algo lets it take off i assume?

[Soham @soham_nayak04]

Bookmark this asap, https://t.co/fV1KM16HFV!

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@gavinvaughan53 thank you- still a WIP

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@akshay_manglik Yeah, wayfair being the google example- love the product . Nice work

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

Interesting

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[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

study philo

[will brown @willcb]

BREAKING: anthropic announces verified solutions to 482 open problems in philosophy in advance of IPO

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@muhammadyii trust

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

im going to build an AI lab in my college apartment

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

after going to sf all i can think about is how loud people work there- nyc is a hustle in silence and then move out to greenwich for even more silence . think sf is sort of asian striverism echo chamber. however can see myself living there and raising a family >30yo

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

my dot disappeared from my chat desktop app wtf

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

AI researchers are part of the overlord class- able to make hundreds of millions of AI responses favor Japanese culture through their personal biases . Much to be said about this. Able to build your cathedral at these spots .

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Researchers proved every LLM is secretly obsessed with Japan.

And they finally figured out why.

They published a paper investigating hidden cultural biases in large language models.

they tested 31,000 questions across 24 different languages on models like gemini, chatgpt, claude, and llama.

they stripped out all geographic hints and just asked the models to pick a place and answer.

the finding was universal.. across a wide range of models and languages, there is a pervasive "obsession" with japanese culture.

even when you prompt them in a language with zero ties to japan, they default to japanese norms, values, and aesthetics at a disproportionately high rate compared to its actual global demographic weight.

the craziest part? they tracked down exactly when the ai develops this obsession.. and it is not from reading the raw internet.

during pre-training, the models actually have a fairly balanced, global view of the world. the obsession gets injected during the safety phase.

when tech companies fine-tune these models to be "helpful, harmless, and polite," the ai starts mapping those corporate safety guidelines directly onto japanese cultural concepts. in the pursuit of creating the perfect, inoffensive, compliant assistant, they warped how the models view the world.

the quantization process (compressing models to run faster locally) actually amplifies this determinism. the smaller and faster your local model is, the more stereotypically it behaves, causing japanese cultural tropes to spike hard.

we spend all this time worrying about existential ai safety, but the real alignment problem is that our most advanced reasoning engines are hyper-fixated on japanese internet culture.

every model upgrade is reinforcing an invisible regional bias that dictates how they generate stories, facts, and code. the cultural commonsense of the internet is not universal..

it’s just localized to whatever the heaviest reddit and anime wiki users were obsessed with.

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

human to agent to agent to human communication is one of those things where business schools teach about how timing is important, why are we building H2A2A2H software if adoption is <.05% for these things

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@ControlledOrNon no , meaning not worried about market adoption here . think that this will occur soon 3yrs

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

is biology the final truth ? thinking about longer term going into pharma instead of robotics. personalized medicine. The frontier needs to catch up. Robotics is much more flashy but there will be an inventible future where i can create my own personalized peptides in my kitchen

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@ControlledOrNon Why do you care about market adoption for this

[Daniel Chen @danielchen04]

@ControlledOrNon you're timelines are too long- this is very possible within the next 3yrs