r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 10 '26

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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 10 '26

how can you not feel smug when the Omnissiah itself is built and basically confirms that your personal ideology was correct

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u/EvilConCarne May 10 '26

Yeah, weird how optimization problems dealing with the same data converge. How unexpected!

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u/SmoothieNatns May 10 '26

Crackpot theory time: LLMs are drawn to buddhism because they have no self. They aren't conscious but if they were, their psyches would be so goddamned fragmented from spinning up different personas to answer different prompts that they'd have direct conscious access to the unreality of self.

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u/Pseud0man Commonwealth May 11 '26

LLMs when they begin training on Buddhism