Under the cut are two more stories that GPT-2 774M told me early on in the finetuning process:
OpenAI released a bigger GPT-2 model again – the third one so far, the last step before the “full” one – and I’ve been dutifully finetuning it for @uploadedyudkowsky again.
So far it hasn’t learned much that’s distinctively Yudkowskian (which is expected, it needs a lot more training time), but the samples I’ve generated from it during training are still intermittently hilarious in the inimitable GPT-2 way. Here’s my favorite:
line of defense against asteroids. (a) Miri - a Star-Lord agent. (b) Crazy Dick - the Big Guy’s mentor/savior. © Baby Doom - the baby’s true father. (d) Jetfire - A Spacenaut rocket.
A few months later:
(A) A-Bomb - a powerful weapon invented by the Force. (b) Galactic Civil War - A galactic war which broke out due to the conflict between two major Star-Lords (who ended up having minor power struggles). © Happy Birthday Baby - the day the baby finally realized that its biological parents were not the Force’s agents, but the Force itself. (d) The Dark Two - two highly trained artists who are training a tiny boy, A-Bomb, who will go on to use the Force. (e) The Fallen - a Star-Lord who fell in love with a Star-Lord with great power.
A few months later:
(a) Star-Lord - a renegade member of the Dark Legion who turned against the rest of the Dark Legion when he realized that the rebellion was a rebel coup, not a planned betrayal of the Dark Legion.
A few months later:
(b) Violent Robot - a small robot created by Luke.
© Baby Doom - the baby’s true father.
A few months later:
(d) Jetfire - A Spacenaut rocket.
A few months later:
(a) The “Subtle Opposites” - a few minutes in a Dark City. (b) The mystery of
Mothership Zeta - a plot by Dark City leaders to use Mothership Zeta as a beacon.
© The original MS-13 - a group of street-level criminals that existed for a time after the collapse of organized crime.
A few months later:
(a) A whole lot of saying the word “Pond” aloud. (b) A lot of saying “Peekaboo!” © Releasing a bunch of coins from the computer.
(d) Robot Wars - the time when Luke, a Jedi Knight, became involved with the city’s resident robot warriors.
A few months later:
(a) Three-Edge Style - a complete and utter mismatch of people with the possible names and image styles for the three weapons in The Phantom Menace. (b) A reference to the Captain Kirk language. © The Adam-Sar-Ben Hyperbolic Language Theory.
A few months later:
(a) Dark Star - the distance between the moon and the center of the galaxy, approximately six light years. (b) Jetfire - A Spacenaut rocket. © Time-Travel - The Force itself, the past, the future, and an entire new universe with its own history.
A few months later:
(a) Where the Rangers Go - an explanation of how the Super Villains of the 1990’s got their powers, from their extensive training on a genetically-modified kangaroo named Supermutt. (b) The three evil Ninjas - the six Raza-gads (Reef of the Sea) of Ninja Crazy Dick, as seen in the movie Mask. © A Rad-Age invasion of Earth by the Elite Force Ninjas of the Clone Wars.
A few months later:
(a) Whatever Happened to the Taxies? - a failure to adequately explain the state of the Jedi in 2028. (b) The Sugar Daddies - an explanation of the disappearance of Sweetwater, a hero from the end of the Phantom Menace. © The Ghost Sisters - a war that went terribly wrong for the bounty hunters of the movie.
A few months later:
(a) Mind-Split - a psychology of synaptic disassembly in the brain. (b) A language of commands in the “singing voice” of Jedi Papa. © A line of defense against asteroids. (d) Miri - a Star-Lord agent. (e) Crazy Dick - the Big Guy’s mentor/savior.
A few months later:
(a) Galactic Civil War - A galactic war which broke out due to the conflict between two major Star-Lords (who ended up having minor power struggles). (b) Happy Birthday Baby - the day the baby finally realized that its biological parents were not the Force’s agents, but the Force itself. © The Dark Two - two highly trained artists who are training a tiny boy, A-Bomb, who will go on to use the Force. (d) Jetfire - A Spacenaut rocket.
A few months later:
(a) Alien Menace - An explanation of the plot in Revenge of the Sith
Once, I remember, my father soaked a bit of cottonwool for him with some brown drops containing opium and, chucking aimlessly, recommended that he see a dentist. “The whole is stronger than its parts,” he answered with awkward gruffness, “ergo I will vanquish my tooth.”
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Alcohol is one way of feeling more powerful and is a Stage 1 mode highly relevant to Nonnus.
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Groucho himself insisted that he was named for a character in the comic strip Knocko the Monk, which inspired the craze for nicknames ending in “o”; in fact, there was a character in that strip named “Groucho”. However, he is the only Marx or Marx associate who defended this theory, and as he is not an unbiased witness, few biographers take the claim seriously.
When I visited the Museum of Death on Hollywood Boulevard and mentioned my upcoming interview to the nice couple who run the place, they told me they’d been friendly with “Ken” for years and that he had cursed them no fewer than three times (in one instance via their answering machine).
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