Quick Notes

Okay, it’s interesting because we can understand the hallucination from a metaphysical level. For example, a model generated the composer of Rocky is John Williams. Of course, Rocky is very famous and John Williams is also very famous, but the metaphysical station between Rocky and John Williams is not very stable in models internal representation so that if we can compute the internal representation of Rocky and and John Williams and also the relation between Rocky and John Williams then we can detect models internal hallucinations

It is really interesting if we can somehow align model with accuracy and truthfulness. We can somehow implement the truthfulness as the first priority of models.

And we can come to understand that people who stick to accuracy and sincerity sometimes are not rational, at least in the utilitarian sense. For example, if a reporter is trying to seek the truth, doing so may damage her and bring bad outcomes. From a utilitarian calculation, if people follow benefits only and pursue interests alone, then in many circumstances maintaining facts or maintaining illusions, and complying with common sense within a certain culture, becomes the safer choice.

Yet we, as humans, still have a tendency to pursue the truth and to feel terrible about lying, even when it costs us. This demonstrates that the pursuit of truth and accuracy is not instrumentally rational. It is a stable and autonomous function of agency. An honest person does not primarily consider interests but instead speaks autonomously according to what he believes.

This is one reason we trust language, because language concerns what we say and what we believe. It therefore seems that Williams believed we often think honesty comes from rationality, while in fact rationality comes from honesty. The reason we, as humans, can conduct complex rational activities is that, at a fundamental level, we have a stable commitment to honesty, accuracy, and sincerity.

If all of us treated the pursuit of truth purely as an instrumental value, then we could always adjust truth-seeking according to our interests and the social structures in which we are located. In that case, it would be difficult to explain how public knowledge systems accumulate over time. The history of science and law would become merely strategic outcomes.

The pursuit of truth sometimes requires us to adhere strongly to what we believe. This may appear unwise at the local level, yet without such commitment we would lose the structure of rationality itself. In postmodern discussions of power structures and standpoint, we may reveal social structures, but this does not automatically provide normative instruction about the nature of accuracy and sincerity. Because of this fundamental tendency toward truth, we possess the freedom and intellectual structure necessary to understand social structures and history.

If we lose the pursuit of truth, we lose the freedom to criticize and the possibility that something can become more accurate. From this perspective, the pursuit of truth and accuracy does not arise from suddenly grasping a prior metaphysical structure of belief. It concerns understanding history, society, and humanity itself. Truth is something that survives within human history.

In certain philosophical traditions, like the Plato tradition, truth is valuable because it is truth and it is beyond the existence of Imperfect human However, in modern times, truth is regarded as a product of social movements. I think Bernard Williams does not accept the goal. So, first, he agrees that accuracy and sincerity is a product of social cooperation. But he also argues that if we accept accuracy and sincerity as a product of social cooperation, then given that these virtues are formed in history, then it permits a possibility that we also can give them up historically. Okay, it seems Williams does not accept this, because we cannot abandon certain values because it’s formed in history. For example, language is formed in history, but to abandon language is likely withdrawn from society itself. and he argues that accuracy and sincerity are the values that we cannot abandon because it becomes the essential elements for our society. So we need truth. It’s not because it is a metaphysical status. We need truth because it becomes a backbone of us to live in our society. So that the historical research on truth to reveal the origin of the truth and our epistemic virtues does not necessarily underestimate its necessity. On the contrary, once we understand how this epistemic virtues become visible in history, Then we come understand why they are irreplaceable in history. It is a lifestyle that we cannot withdraw.

Okay, we have come to know that sincerity itself is valuable. It cannot be traded for personal interest. This is to say we trade sincerity for more utility. But it is quite difficult to maintain sincerity, because if people, the great people, believe that a lie somehow can character the group benefit and maintain the stability of society, it seems there is no reason to continue stick to sincerity. But we have to admit that many scientific progress has made so far. It is because that we stick to sincerity, and in the long term it generates benefits to great math. So that the social utility or sincerity depends on the non-utilitarian attitudes of people towards truth. If this attitude is lost, then we will lose the utility of sincerity. Sincerity is important because in the long term and cooperation, we found that if we don’t have a stable commitment to sincerity, we can’t maintain a stable society.So that we start to regard sincerity as an epistemic virtue.

So if a society can rely on the sincerity of Epistemic virtue as a whole, then people can rely on it to bring benefits to the mass. If sincerity only has an instrumental value, then people can always abandon sincerity for their own personal interests. So that we have treated sincerity as something that we cannot abandon, and sincerity itself has values. So that we regard sincerity as a moral virtue is not because we ought to be moral from nowhere, but it is because to regard sincerity as a virtue by itself as a requirement of a stable society.

Okay, follow-up to last post. So, you know, being accurate and sincere is not, at least in Bernard Williams’ perspective, a moral requirement. So it is a functional requirements which require us to stay accurate and sincere to support the division of labor and so that we can support the development and sustainability of the society.

So we need a certain tendency to communicate which can sustain the society we have. And in order for our society to operate for a long time, we need certain epistemic virtues that can support the information system. The first one is accuracy, which means we gain accurate knowledge about what we observe. The second one is sincerity. The second one is sincerity. It is about telling others what we believe without hiding or lying to others. So if we cannot gain accurate knowledge about what we believe, what we observe, then we cannot provide reliable information to others. And also if we cannot be sincere We lie to others and we choose to hide information from others. We also endanger our society.

So there are two or three important factors when we are trying to form our beliefs. We have to consider the important role that belief plays in communication also we have also to focus on the unnoticed effects that unnoticed effects from others when we form our beliefs.

Okay, this is from Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness. So he believes that the difference between people is not solely from the mentality difference. But it’s also related to the position that we have, we take in society. So that we are different is not because we are clever, smart, but because the contingent location we are given in society.

Okay, I have made a huge update to my website. So basically, I add a feature that can display my notes and also add a feature that can read aloud my articles thanks to Microsoft. Also, I found that if somehow we can screenshot the nodes of the website and give it to the models, it can read the nodes and update according with the design instructions.

I really hope faithful and honest could become the first priority of models.

Claude might be the only model that can perform lie and also make extra decisions for u.

So it basically can take voice input and convert it to text node like Twitter. I mean, it’s very… useful for me to record my thoughts And it also has a great markdown editor, which I can just type my thoughts. I always want an application like this. Thanks to large language model, And now I can create it and install it on my phone. It’s like a personal application.

okay just trying out my personal backend by github blog application It looks great. So I use a cheap and simple voice input and also support text model generation to how to generate tags and the title. I use GitHub as a backend. and use an iOS app as frontend.