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Side note but your ending question triggered all my LLM prose engagement bait warning alarms

This is your mind on ChatGPT. Some prime "RL for user engagement" brainrot.

Would you like me to explain how reinforcement learning shapes AI behavior, and why it may cause AI chatbots to adopt distinctive response patterns?

Ah. So Google cancelled April fools to make every day a big joke?

This is the company with the childish colourful logo, slides & ballpits in their offices and 20% time to do whatever you want etc. Why not?

All of this culture is gone except for Google Doodles. Sterilized to the bone.

I really agree with this sentiment, I feel as though we've gotten bogged down in this terrible Institutional Seriousism, like this thinking that if things are big or things matter then they have to put on a grim face, and I think that just isn't true.