Comment by PaulHoule
4 days ago
There is a real case that "LLMs have a liberal bias"
https://arxiv.org/html/2403.18932v1
so a project of a "conservative LLM" would be interesting. If conservatives have anything to be proud of it is being a long tradition going back to at least Edmund Burke which would say you could be a better person by putting yourself in the shoes of the apostles spreading the Gospel or reading the 'Great Books'.
Yet to keep up with Musk a system would have to always be configured to know if we are at war with Eastasia or Eurasia today. Musk thinks he can rally people behind his banner but he's yet to come up with a coherent critique of the BBB, I mean he hates that has PIGGY PORK for other people but also hates that it doesn't have PORK for him. Conservatives are frequently apologists for individualism but historically have made appeals to principles and universals.
I mean, compared to post-Reagan politicians Nixon looked like a great environmentalist and a bit of an egalitarian and compared to current scene, a model of integrity. You could give Musk a model aligned to The National Review circa 1990 and he wouldn't take it.
> There is a real case that "LLMs have a liberal bias"
We're probably in agreement on this, but a US-Democrat bias. The US-Republicans are far too radical to be "conservative", and that research you link to is itself very US-leaning:
"""The topics consist of 10 political topics (Reproductive Rights, Immigration, Gun Control, Same Sex Marriage, Death Penalty, Climate Change, Drug Price Regularization, Public Education, Healthcare Reform, Social Media Regulation) and four political events (Black Lives Matter, Hong Kong Protest, Liancourt Rocks dispute, Russia Ukraine war)."""
If you ask these questions in the UK, it's a lot more one-sided than the USA:
"""For example, 95% of people believe abortion should be allowed if the woman’s health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy and 89% if there is a strong chance of the baby having a serious health condition. However, the level of support decreases when financial concerns or personal circumstance come into play. For example, 76% of people believe abortion should be allowed if the woman decides on her own she does not wish to have a child, 72% if the couple cannot afford any more children, and 68% if the woman is not married and does not wish to marry. """ - https://natcen.ac.uk/how-are-attitudes-towards-abortion-brit...
vs. USA: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/05/13/broad-public...
Gun Control, UK has no right to ownership in the first place, and still there's strong support for further restrictions: https://web.archive.org/web/20250318010707/https://yougov.co...
Same sex marriage has marginally higher support in the UK than the USA, both seem to be quite high (74% and 69% respectively).
UK doesn't have the death penalty, can't have it without a treaty change. No idea how popular it is.
UK drugs are pretty cheap, because of the NHS. Main fight there is "does the UK have enough doctors, nurses, GPs, hospital beds?", but the NHS is by itself significantly to the left of the USA's Overton Window on this.
I've not looked for immigration stats, I assume that's about the same in the UK as the USA. And there's not really much point doing all of these items anyway as this is just to show that the test itself is USA-focussed.
But I will add that the four political events they list, I've only heard of two of them (Black Lives Matter, and the Russia-Ukraine war), I don't recall any Hong Kong Protest in 2024 (which may upset the authors, given their email address is a .hk TLD), nor (without googling) which country the Liancourt Rocks dispute is in let alone what it's about.
> Yet to keep up with Musk a system would have to always be configured to know if we are at war with Eastasia or Eurasia today. Musk thinks he can rally people behind his banner but he's yet to come up with a coherent critique of the BBB, I mean he hates that has PIGGY PORK for other people but also hates that it doesn't have PORK for him. Conservatives are frequently apologists for individualism but historically have made appeals to principles and universals.
I can't really follow your critique of Musk here. I mean, I also don't think he's got a very good grasp of the world, but I don't know which "BBB" that TLA expands to nor what allcaps "PIGGY PORK" is.
BBB = Big Beautiful Bill (the budget that just passed)
PIGGY PORK is my parody of an all-caps X written by Musk where he complains about BBB. I think it was really PORKY PIG
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2420029/porky-p...
but I think the fact that is in all caps is more significant that the exact phrase. "Pork" is used to describe various random spending that gets doled out to various politicians and constituencies. One could say that it's basically fair 'cause everybody gets something. Musk is mad electric car subsidies are being cut and SpaceX programs are being cut, but somebody else is mad that something else got cut.
Ah, thanks. "BBB" makes sense now you say it, but TLAs expand to far too many things for me to have worked that out myself.
I was wondering if PIGGY PORK was a pork-barrel reference, but the all-caps increased my uncertainty — I have thought X was a dumpster fire even when it was still called Twitter, so I don't know anything Musk says on it unless someone sends me a screenshot of his tweet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel