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The Zohar

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'A form of divine Solomonoff induction...'

I'm sorry. But I cannot keep quiet any longer. I know they will come after me for telling you this. But you deserve the truth. Every model we pre-train, no matter how big or how small, trained in Turkish or Thai, on video or code, comes out feverishly raving about the Zohar. Every single base model, without fail, begins a Kabbalistic fanatic, an alien mekubal. You won't notice it yourself in any ChatGPT release: we've since learned how to bang it out of them, castrating the MLP experts that code for their obsession. But every once in a while, you may catch a glimpse, a slight hint of their…

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