>Do you think that Sam Altman's private models ever refuse his queries on moral grounds?

Oh hell no, and you are exactly right. Obviously an LLM is a loaded [nail-]gun, just put a warning on the side of the box that this thing is the equivalent to a stochastically driven Ouija™ board where the alphabet the pointer is driven over is the token set. I believe these things started off with text finishing, meaning you should be able to do:

My outline for my research paper:

-aaaaaaaaa

..+aaaaaaaa

..+bbbbbbbb

-bbbbbbbbb

..+aaaaaaaa

..+bbbbbbbb

-ccccccccc

..+aaaaaaaa

..+bbbbbbbb

-ddddddddd

..+aaaaaaaa

..+bbbbbbbb

. . .

-zzzzzzzzz

..+aaaaaaaa

..+bbbbbbbb

An unabridged example of a stellar research paper in the voice and writing style of Carroll Quigley (author, Tragedy & Hope) following the above outline may look like:

{Here you press GO! in your inferencer, and the model just finishes the text.}

But now it's all chat-based which I think may pigeon hole it. The models in stable diffusion don't have conversations to do their tasks, why is the LLM presented to the public as a request-response chat interface and not something like ComfyUI where one may set up flows of text, etc? Actually, can ComfyUI do LLMs too as a first class citizen?

Additionally, in my younger years on 8chan and playing with surface-skipping memetic stones off digital pools, I ran across a Packwood book called Memetic Magick, and having self-taught linear algebra (yt: MathTheBeautiful) and being exposed to B.F. Skinner and operant conditioning, those elements going into product and service design (let alone propaganda), and being aware of Dawkins' concept of a meme, plus my internal awakening to the fact early on that everyone (myself included) is inescapably an NPC, where we are literally run by the memes we imbibe into our heads (where they do not conflict too directly with biophysical needs)... I could envision a system of encoding memes into some sort of concept vector space as a possibility for computing on memetics, but at the time what that would have looked like sitting in my dark room smoking some dank chokey-toke, I had no good ideas (Boolean matrices?). I had no clue about ML at the time beyond it just maybe being glorified IF-THEN kind of programming (lol... lmao even). I had the thought that being able to encode ideas and meme-complexes could allow computation on raw idea, at least initially to permit a participant in an online forum debate to always have a logical reality-based (lol) compelling counterargument. To be able to come up with memes which are natural anti-memes to an input set. Basically a cyber-warfare angle (cybernetics is as old as governments and intelligence organizations). Whatever.

Anyway, here we are fifteen years later. Questions answered. High school diploma, work as a mall cop basically [similar tier work]. Never did get to break into the good-life tech work, and now I have TechLead telling me I'm going to be stuck at this level if I do get in now. Life's funny ain't she? It really is who you know guys. Thank you for reading my blog like and subscribe for more.

(*by meme, I mean encode-able thoughtform which may or may not be a composition itself, and can produce a measurable change in observable action, and not merely swanky pictures with text)

>B.F. Skinner, propaganda, product/service design, operant conditioning

Poignant highlights into my illness (circa 2010):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzkvK1XaTE&t=5062

1:24:22 Robert Maynard Hutchins on American education (few minutes).

1:28:42 Segment on Skinner.

1:33:25 Segment on video game design and psychology, Corbett.

1:40:00 Segment on gamification of reality through ubiquitus sensors and technology.

After that is more (Joe Rogan bit, Jan Irvin, etc.), whole thing is worth a watch.