Teknium (e/λ @Teknium1
— quoting @Tetrabay... (originally TetraspaceWest), Dec 30 2022
Teknium (e/λ) @Teknium1 · 9m
Had to do some lore digging tonight and found TetraspaceWest is the source of the Shoggoth meme, and this is the tweet that started it all
> QUOTED: Tetrabay ... @Tetr... · Dec 30, 2022
Replying to @lovetheusers
[drawing, two panels: left labeled "GPT-3" — a large tentacled shoggoth-like monster with many eyes; right labeled "GPT-3 + RLHF" — the same monster, but now with a small smiley-face mask attached to one tentacle]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
The original tweet credited with originating the "Shoggoth with a smiley face mask" meme for RLHF'd language models, surfaced via lore-digging by Teknium. Directly relevant to Nathan's interest in RLHF, model self-representation, and the substrate-vs-character distinction — this meme is the popular-culture ancestor of concepts like "character reading off substrate."
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