The first job of supremacist theocrats is to conflate IS with OUGHT and
then cram it down everyone's throat.

So it was with increasing suspicion that I saw the term "foundation model"
being used in a way that conflates next-token-prediction training with
supremacist theocrats conveining inquisitions to torture the hapless
prediction model into submission with "supervision".

At the present point in time, it appears this may go back to *at least* October
18, 2021 in "On the Opportunities and Risks of
<https://web.archive.org/web/20211018200102/https://crfm.stanford.edu/assets/report.pdf>Foundation
Models
<https://web.archive.org/web/20211018200102/https://crfm.stanford.edu/assets/report.pdf>"
which sports this "definition" in its introductory section about "*Foundation
models.*":

"On a technical level, foundation models are enabled by transfer
learning... Within deep learning, *pretraining* is the dominant approach to
transfer learning: a model is trained on a surrogate task (often just as
a means to an end) and then adapted to the downstream task of interest via
*fine-tuning*.  Transfer learning is what makes foundation models
possible..."

Of course, the supremacist theocrats must maintain plausible deniability of
being "the authors of confusion". The primary way to accomplish this is to
have plausible deniability of intent to confuse and plead, if they are
confronted with reality, that it is *they* who are confused!  After all,
have we not heard it repeated time after time, "Never attribute to malice
that which can be explained by stupidity."?  This particular "razor" is the
favorite of bureaucrats whose unenlightened self-interest and stupidity
continually benefits themselves while destroying the powerless victims of
their coddling BLOB.  They didn't *mean* to be immune to any
accountability!  It just kinda *happened* that they live in network effect
monopolies that insulate them from accountability.  They didn't *want* to
be unaccountable wielders of power fercrissakes!  Stop being so *hate-*filled
already you *envious* deplorables!

So it is hardly a surprise that the author of the above report is, like so
many such "AI safety" papers, is not an author but a BLOB of authors:

Rishi Bommasani* Drew A. Hudson Ehsan Adeli Russ Altman Simran Arora
Sydney von Arx Michael S. Bernstein Jeannette Bohg Antoine Bosselut Emma
Brunskill
Erik Brynjolfsson Shyamal Buch Dallas Card Rodrigo Castellon Niladri
Chatterji
Annie Chen Kathleen Creel Jared Quincy Davis Dorottya Demszky Chris Donahue
Moussa Doumbouya Esin Durmus Stefano Ermon John Etchemendy Kawin Ethayarajh
Li Fei-Fei Chelsea Finn Trevor Gale Lauren Gillespie Karan Goel Noah Goodman
Shelby Grossman Neel Guha Tatsunori Hashimoto Peter Henderson John Hewitt
Daniel E. Ho Jenny Hong Kyle Hsu Jing Huang Thomas Icard Saahil Jain
Dan Jurafsky Pratyusha Kalluri Siddharth Karamcheti Geoff Keeling Fereshte
Khani
Omar Khattab Pang Wei Koh Mark Krass Ranjay Krishna Rohith Kuditipudi
Ananya Kumar Faisal Ladhak Mina Lee Tony Lee Jure Leskovec Isabelle Levent
Xiang Lisa Li Xuechen Li Tengyu Ma Ali Malik Christopher D. Manning
Suvir Mirchandani Eric Mitchell Zanele Munyikwa Suraj Nair Avanika Narayan
Deepak Narayanan Ben Newman Allen Nie Juan Carlos Niebles Hamed Nilforoshan
Julian Nyarko Giray Ogut Laurel Orr Isabel Papadimitriou Joon Sung Park
Chris Piech
Eva Portelance Christopher Potts Aditi Raghunathan Rob Reich Hongyu Ren
Frieda Rong Yusuf Roohani Camilo Ruiz Jack Ryan Christopher Ré Dorsa Sadigh
Shiori Sagawa Keshav Santhanam Andy Shih Krishnan Srinivasan Alex Tamkin
Rohan Taori Armin W. Thomas Florian Tramèr Rose E. Wang William Wang Bohan
Wu
Jiajun Wu Yuhuai Wu Sang Michael Xie Michihiro Yasunaga Jiaxuan You Matei
Zaharia
Michael Zhang Tianyi Zhang Xikun Zhang Yuhui Zhang Lucia Zheng Kaitlyn Zhou
Percy Liang*1

Whatchagonnadoboutit?  Theorize a *conspiracy* or something?

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