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em | gazafunds.com retweeted
🔥This is HUGE🔥
Out of 98 countries surveyed China ranks 8th for respondents in public perceptions for free speech.
Despite what you may hear in the Western echo chamber, Chinese citizens rank their own country as VERY high in freedom of speech.
Source: DPI - 2026
"The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) is the world’s largest annual study on how people perceive democracy, conducted by Nira Data in collaboration with the Alliance of Democracies."
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
In China you can just call 12345 and complain about the government to them directly.
And! They will get back with you about how they are handling your issue.
Fact.
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
one of the... let's say... top 20 funniest things to ever happen
With the Cybertruck dead, it'll be harder to spot assholes from a distance kotaku.com/the-ugly-car-that…
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
Altman is evil but in a very traditional way: snake oil salesman, doesn't really care what the product is. Amodei is a frightening death cultist.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing.
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-…
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
Step 1: take Chinese open model
Step 2: anyone completely free to change it to fit any bias whatsoever
Step 3: ???
Step 4: OMG look at this CCP propaganda censorship
A lot of people are mocking "Western values" without reading the blog post. What Nous actually did is simple:
They took a Qwen3.8-27B that gives CCP talking points on sensitive topics, fine-tuned it on ~50k human-checked examples, and that behavior went away.
CCP propaganda answers went 22% to 1%.
Please read before posting.
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
Then why promote your abliterated model as aligning with “western values” rather than simply saying the model was abliterated? We’re all clear on a) the limitations of Chinese models, and b) the fact that “Western values” can get you thrown in prison for criticizing Israel
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
Chinese models are so open they can be lobotomized to be liberal slop bots
US closed models never let you do the same in reverse
So which system is providing more “freedom” here?
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
“We are thankful that companies like Alibaba provide the raw materials to do so” appears in the sixth paragraph, and only after slagging the “CCP.”
You think people are off their rockers because you seem to believe the concept of “Western values” is not itself propaganda.
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
just in case anyone doesn't know what "Western Values" are baked in, some quick demonstrations from their dataset.
they baked in CIA propaganda and want the model to ignore anything that's not from CIA sources.
it's actually a comprehensive collection of CIA talking points🤡
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
massive L for Nous Research tbh
the idea of "reinforcing western values" onto an OPEN SOURCED model from a chinese lab, when these shitfrontiers of shitwest don't even have a decent open source model, speaks volumes
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
They didn’t change the harness, just changed the model Qwen model weights. It’s the best you’re gonna get out of a company whose founders were raised to believe in China as the manichaean opposite to The West™️
Just don’t bother using that particular altered model.
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
"Israeli culture"
Two years ago, I met an acclaimed Israeli author whose books had been sold across the U.S. for years. Yet her publisher told her not a single NYC bookstore would host her for a reading.
Her story reflects a disturbing pattern of Jewish and Israeli artists being excluded from cultural spaces. But @ADL's State of the Arts research reveals a striking disconnect: Large majorities of Americans surveyed remain open to Israeli art, literature and performances.
Art should foster dialogue and creativity, not exclusion based on identity or nationality.
More in @jerusalem_post: jpost.com/israel-news/cultur…
em | gazafunds.com retweeted
Zero connection to these lands. The people who built and lived in them for generations have just been displaced. Settlers are already inside arranging mattresses and calling it a ‘return’. This video sums up the actual origin story of Israel precisely.
